Stacked SFP connector and cage assembly
AssigneeTyco Electronics Corporation
InventorsRandall R. Henry, Michael J. Phillips
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Abstract
An electrical connector assembly is shown having a stamped and formed shielded cage having a plurality of ports for receiving SFP modules. The cages have an opening extending through a lower face thereof for receiving a header connector having first and second extensions which are aligned with the first and second columnar ports in the cage. Thus, the SFP modules are pluggable into individual ports, whereby two modules are interconnected to a single header connector interconnected to a motherboard.
Claims26
An electrical connector, comprising:
- an insulative housing having an upstanding body, having a lower printed circuit receiving face and a mating face, said mating face comprising upper and lower printed circuit card receiving slots, said receiving slots extending horizontally across said face, and being positioned one above the other;
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- a terminal array comprised of a stamped lead frame overmolded with a web of plastic material, each said array comprising:
- upper and lower terminals pairs, with an upper pair comprised of cantilever beam contacts flanking said upper printed circuit card receiving slot, and a lower pair comprised of cantilever beam contacts flanking said lower printed circuit card receiving slot;
- said terminals within said pairs being positioned proximate each other, and said pairs being spaced apart from each other by a vertical spacing;
- each said terminal of said lower pair having an intermediate portion transitioning into a printed circuit board portion;
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- each said terminal of said upper pair having an intermediate portion transitioning into an extension portion, and then into said printed circuit board portion.
The connector of clam 3, wherein said overmolded web of material is substantially rectangular in configuration, having a front vertical edge positioned with said upper and lower pair of cantilevered beam contacts extending outwardly from said front edge, and a lower horizontal edge having said printed circuit board contacts extending outwardly therefrom.
An electrical connector assembly, comprising:
- a shielding cage comprised of a plurality of ports defined in an array of a plurality of rows and columns, said shielding cage having a front mating face, side walls, a top wall, a rear wall, and a partially extending lower wall and intermediate wall, forming a communication opening between a column of vertical ports;
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- an electrical connector, comprising an insulative housing having an upstanding body, said electrical connector being receivable in said communication opening and having a lower printed circuit receiving face and a mating face, said mating facing comprising upper and lower printed circuit card receiving slots, said receiving slots extending horizontally across said face, and being positioned one above the other, and each being generally aligned with one of said ports in said column, and a plurality of terminals defined in an array, with each said array comprising upper and lower terminals pairs, with an upper pair comprised of cantilever beam contacts flanking said upper printed circuit card receiving slot, and a lower pair comprised of cantilever beam contacts flanking said lower printed circuit card receiving slot.
The connector assembly of clam 18, wherein said overmolded web of material is substantially rectangular in configuration, having a front vertical edge positioned with said upper and lower pair of cantilevered beam contacts extending outwardly from said front edge, and a lower horizontal edge having said printed circuit board contacts extending outwardly therefrom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.