US 7,794,240 B2 · Electrical connector with complementary conductive elements

Abstract

An electrical interconnection system with high speed, differential electrical connectors. The connectors are formed with columns of conductive elements, some of which carry signals some of which act as ground conductors. The conductive elements may contain projections to secure the conductive elements in a housing or to facilitate desirable current flow patterns. To avoid impedance discontinuities caused by the projections, adjacent conductive elements may be formed with complementary portions to provide a relatively uniform edge-to-edge spacing between signal and ground conductors along the length of the signal conductor. To manufacture such a connector in which both the signal and the ground conductive elements contain projections, the conductive elements carrying signals may be inserted into a housing from one side and the conductive elements acting as ground conductors may be inserted from an opposite side.

Claims23

Dependent claims

An electrical connector comprising a plurality of conductive elements disposed in a column, the plurality of conductive elements comprising:

a) a first conductor, the first conductor having a first width along a first line in a plane through the column and a second width along a second line in the plane, the second width being greater than the first width;
and
b) a second conductor, the second conductor being disposed adjacent the first conductor and having a third width along the first line and a fourth width along the second line, the third width being greater than the fourth width.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Electrical connector with complementary conductive elements

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Electrical connector with complementary conductive elements

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Abstract

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