US 7,322,855 B2 · Array connector having improved electrical characteristics and increased signal pins with decreased ground pins

Abstract

An electrical connector includes a connector body, a plurality of rows and columns of conductive pins disposed along the length direction and the width direction of the connector body so as to form an array of signal pins located in a pin field, at least two rows of ground pins arranged along at least two sides of the pin field, with no ground pins being arranged in the pin field or between adjacent signal pins. The signal pins are arranged in a stretched pitch and/or staggered configuration to minimize cross-talk and maximize signal pin density and signal-to-ground ratio.

Claims39

Dependent claims

An electrical connector comprising:

a connector body;
a plurality of pins arranged in the connector body to define one pin field in the electrical connector, the plurality of pins including a plurality of signal pins and a plurality of ground pins;
wherein
the ground pins are arranged only at a periphery of the one pin field;
the plurality of signal pairs are grouped into pairs of signal pins such that the signal pins in a pair of signal pins are closer to each other than adjacent pairs of signal pins;
each of the plurality of pins includes a broad side and a narrow side;
and
each of the pairs of signal pins are arranged such that the broad sides of the signal pins face each other.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/865,128Filed 10 Jun 2004

Published

US 2005/0277221 A115 Dec 2005

Granted

29 Jan 2008

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

H01R 13/6471
Means for preventing cross-talk: by special arrangement of ground and signal conductors, e.g. GSGS [Ground-Signal-Ground-Signal]
H01R 13/6587
For separating multiple connector modules: for mounting on PCBs
H01R 13/6473
Specially adapted for high-frequency, e.g. structures providing an impedance match or phase match: impedance matching
H01R
Electrically-conductive connections

Array connector having improved electrical characteristics and increased signal pins with decreased ground pins

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Array connector having improved electrical characteristics and increased signal pins with decreased ground pins

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Abstract

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