High speed, high density electrical connector
AssigneeAmphenol Corporation
InventorMark W. Gailus
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Abstract
An electrical connector with electrically lossy materials bridging ground members. The lossy conductive members may be formed by filling a settable binder with conductive particles, allowing the partially conductive members to be formed through an insert molding process. Connectors assembled from wafers that contain signal conductors held within an insulative housing may incorporate lossy conductive members by having filled thermal plastic molded onto the insulatative housing. The lossy conductive members may be used in conjunction with magnetically lossy materials. The lossy conductive members reduce ground system do resonance within the connector, thereby increasing the high frequency performance of the connector.
Claims29
An electrical connector, comprising an insulative material, a plurality of conductive elements each having a portion partially disposed in said insulative material, a signal conductor having a portion disposed in said insulative material extending between but not contacting the portions of said plurality of conductive elements disposed in said insulative material, and an electrically lossy material electrically connecting the portions of said plurality of conductive elements with one another but not electrically connecting said plurality of signal conductors.
An electrical connector, comprising:
- a first conductive element;
- a second conductive element substantially parallel to and spaced apart from said first conductive element;
- a signal conductor disposed in an insulative material, said signal conductor not contacting said first conductive element and said second conductive element, said signal conductor disposed between said first conductive element and said second conductive element;
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- an electrically lossy material electrically connecting said first conductive element and said second conductive element but not electrically connecting said signal conductor.
An electrical connector comprising a plurality of regions, each region having:
- insulative material;
- a plurality of signal conductors, each signal conductor having a contact tail and a contact portion and an intermediate portion there between, and at least a part of the intermediate portion of each of the plurality of signal conductors secured in the insulative material;
- a plurality of conductive elements not in contact with any one of the plurality of signal conductors, each conductive element having an intermediate portion;
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- electrically lossy material extending between and in contact with the intermediate portion of each of the plurality of conductive elements,
- wherein the plurality of signal conductors are not electrically connected with the electrically lossy material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.