High speed connector
AssigneeFCI Americas Technology, Inc.
InventorsJohn R. Ellis, Timothy A. Lemke
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Abstract
An electrical connector having an insulating housing, a plurality of first contacts (139), a plurality of second contacts (141,143), wherein the connector exhibits a desired characteristic impedance. The second contacts are angled relative to the first contacts and each has an edge (151) disposed adjacent to an edge or side of first contacts. An electrical connector as described above where the first contacts are signal contacts, the second contacts are power or ground contacts, and the desired impedance is approximately less than 50 ohms.
Claims30
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing;
- a plurality of first contacts arranged in a column within the housing, the first contacts including lateral edges and lateral surfaces and defining a first dominant plane within which the first contacts generally reside;
- and
- a plurality of second contacts arranged in a row within the housing, the second contacts including lateral edges and surfaces and defining a second dominant plane within which the second contacts generally reside and the second dominant plane being angled relative to the first dominant plane;
- wherein the first contacts and the second contacts are positioned such that one of the first contacts is disposed at each intersection of the column of first contacts and the row of second contacts;
- and
- further wherein the electrical connector exhibits a characteristic impedance of less than approximately 50 ohms.
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing;
- a plurality of signal contacts within the housing, each signal contact including lateral edges and lateral sides;
- and
- a plurality of one of ground and power contacts within the housing, each of the plurality of one of ground and power contacts including opposing lateral edges and lateral sides;
- wherein the signal contacts and one of the ground and power contacts are arranged in an array of rows and columns such that the column contains an alternating arrangement of signal contacts and one of ground contacts and power contacts and the row contains one of power contacts and ground contacts such that at least one lateral edge of one of the ground and power contacts in the row is disposed substantially adjacent to a midpoint between the lateral edges of one of the alternating signal contact and one of the ground and power contacts in the column.
A method of making an electrical connector, comprising the steps of:
- providing an insulative housing;
- providing a plurality of signal contacts each having lateral edges and lateral sides;
- providing a plurality of one of ground and power contacts each having lateral edges and lateral sides;
- inserting the signal contacts into the insulative housing;
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- inserting the plurality of one of ground and power contacts into the housing such that at least one of the lateral edge of each of the plurality of one of ground and power contacts is disposed substantially adjacent to the midpoint between the lateral edges of one of the signal contacts;
- whereby the electrical connector exhibits a desired characteristic impedance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.