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US 7,247,058 B2Granted
Vertical docking connector
AssigneeTyco Electronics Corporation
InventorsNancy Lee Reeser, William Crusey Van Scyoc, Michael Warren Fogg
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes a main housing having a forward mating face and a rearward mounting face, and a plurality of contact modules received in the main housing. Each contact module includes an upper contact module and a lower contact module joined to the upper contact module along side edges of the upper and lower contact modules. Each upper and lower contact module includes a contact housing holding rows of contacts including pairs of signal contacts and individual ground contacts.
Claims19
An electrical connector comprising:
- a main housing having a forward mating face and a rearward mounting face;
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- a plurality of contact modules received in said main housing, each said contact module including an upper contact module and a lower contact module, said upper and lower contact modules having abutting surfaces, each said upper and lower contact module including a contact housing holding rows of contacts;
- wherein each of said lower contact modules includes an upper surface and a slot and a rail proximate said upper surface, and each of said upper contact modules includes a lower surface and a slot and a rail proximate said lower surface, and wherein each said slot on said upper and lower contact modules is configured to receive the rail on the other of said upper and lower contact modules to slidably join said upper and lower contact modules to each other.
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A vertical docking connector comprising:
- a main housing having a forward mating face and a rearward mounting face that is substantially parallel to said mating face;
- a plurality of contact modules received in said main housing, each said contact module including an upper contact module and a lower contact module joined to said upper contact module, each said upper and lower contact module including a contact housing holding rows of contacts including pairs of signal contacts and individual ground contacts;
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- a plurality of contact cavities formed in said main housing and arranged in transverse rows extending between end sections of said main housing, wherein some of said plurality of contact cavities receive an individual ground contact and others of said cavities receive a pair of signal contacts;
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- wherein each said end section of said main housing includes a power contact cavity, said power contact cavity including a push shoulder formed on an interior wall and configured to engage a complementary shoulder on a power contact.
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A vertical docking connector comprising:
- a main housing having a forward mating face and a rearward mounting face that is substantially parallel to said mating face;
- a plurality of vertically oriented contact modules received in said main housing, each said contact module including an upper contact module and a lower contact module joined to said upper contact module along side edges of said upper and lower contact modules, each said upper and lower contact module including a contact housing holding rows of contacts including pairs of signal contacts and individual ground contacts;
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- a plurality of contact cavities formed in said main housing and arranged in transverse rows extending between end sections of said main housing, wherein some of said plurality of contact cavities receive an individual ground contact and others of said cavities receive a pair of signal contacts;
- wherein each of said lower contact modules includes an upper surface and a slot and a rail proximate said upper surface, and each of said upper modules includes a lower surface and a slot and a rail proximate said lower surface, and wherein each said slot on said upper and lower contact modules is configured to receive the rail on the other of said upper and lower contact modules to slidably join said upper and lower modules to each other.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.