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US 8,162,675 B2Granted
Connector shield with integrated fastening arrangement
AssigneeMolex Incorporated
InventorsKent E. Regnier, Harold Keith Lang, Patrick R. Casher
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Abstract
A shield for a connector that can provide a card-receiving slot is disclosed. The shield includes sides that provide an enclosure. The shield includes a fastener that is held in place by a retaining notch in a bottom of the shield. The retaining notch is configured to support the fastener in place and restrain it from unintended translation or rotation.
Claims4
A connector assembly, comprising:
- a housing with a mating face that includes two horizontal card-receiving slots that are offset by a first distance;
- a plurality of wafers that each support four terminals;
- each of the four terminals having a contact positioned on one side of one of the two card receiving slots, the terminals on one side of at least one of the two slots being arranged in a ground, signal, signal pattern;
- a shield providing an enclosure in which the housing is positioned, the shield having a opening configured to receive a mating connector that mates with the two card-receiving slots, the opening having a height and a width, the height and width each being not more than three times the first distance, wherein the connector is configure to provide not more than three (3) percent crosstalk with a signal frequency of at least 4.5 GHz.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.