US 6,350,134 B1 · Electrical connector having triad contact groups arranged in an alternating inverted sequence

Abstract

An electrical connector 1 of controlled impedance includes a housing 2 on which are mounted consecutive signal transmission line pairs 12 in consecutive reverse order, each signal transmission line pair 12 being provided by a pair 7 of signal contacts 8 in one contact row 6 opposing a ground contact 9 in another contact row 6, and by having the consecutive signal transmission line pairs 12 in reverse order, the signal contacts 8 of each signal transmission line pair 12 are arranged consecutively with an adjacent ground contact 9 of another signal transmission line pair 12 of reversed order, which minimizes cross talk between different pairs 7 of signal contacts 8, and which provides maximized areas surrounding the signal contacts 8 and the ground contacts 9 for routing circuit paths.

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Dependent claims

An electrical connector comprising:

a housing which holds signal contacts and ground contacts that are arranged in at least two rows, each of the rows including at least a pair of adjacent said signal contacts and one of said ground contacts, wherein each said pair of adjacent said signal contacts in one of said rows is opposed to a respective said ground contact in another of said rows to form a signal transmission line pair, the signal transmission line pairs being arranged consecutively along the rows in an alternating inverted sequence such that, within each said row, said pair of adjacent said signal contacts of one said signal transmission line pair is adjacent to said ground contact of a different said signal transmission line pair.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Electrical connector having triad contact groups arranged in an alternating inverted sequence

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Electrical connector having triad contact groups arranged in an alternating inverted sequence

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Abstract

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