US 8,298,002 B2Granted

Pluggable cable connector

AssigneePanduit Corp.

InventorsSatish I. Patel, Surendra Chitti Babu, Mysore Purushotham Divakar, Paul B. DuCharme, Masud Bolouri-Saransar, Paul W. Wachtel, David E. Urbasic, Nicholas G. Martino, Ronald L. Tellas

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Abstract

A pair manager for use in securing a twin-axial cable to a printed circuit board is described. The pair manager comprises a generally block-shaped portion containing a pair of channels. The channels extend from the front face to the rear face of the block-shaped portion. An integral flange and a pair of integral fingers extend perpendicularly from the front face of the block-shaped portion. The flange extends generally from the center of the front face and the fingers extend from opposite edges of the front face. The fingers and flange function as a partial shield cavity around each pair of conductors. This design helps to maintain better impedance matching when connecting twin-axial cables to a printed circuit board.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A pluggable cable connector for a cable containing at least two twin-axial wire pairs comprising:

an outer shell;
a printed circuit board contained within the outer shell;
a pair manager secured to the printed circuit board, the pair manager having a top portion and a bottom portion, the top portion having at least two apertures formed on a bottom side of the top portion, one aperture for each twin-axial wire pair, the apertures extending from a front face of the top portion to a rear face of the top portion, the bottom portion having at least two apertures formed in a top side of the bottom portion extending from a front face of the bottom portion to a rear face of the bottom portion, wherein the apertures of the top portion and the apertures of the bottom portion are configured to align and form channels that extend from a front face of the pair manager to a rear face of the pair manager when the top portion is secured to the bottom portion, and wherein the printed circuit board is secured to the pair manager proximate to the front face of the pair manger and the pair manager is configured to position the at least two twin-axial wire pairs at a constant distance apart.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/437,377Filed 2 Apr 2012 · continuation
Priority: 20 Jun 2008
Published: US 2012/0045942 A126 Jul 2012
Granted: 30 Oct 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H01R 13/6658
With built-in electronic circuit: on printed circuit board
H01R 13/6592
Specific features or arrangements of connection of shield to conductive members: the conductive member being a shielded cable
H01R 13/6594
Specific features or arrangements of connection of shield to conductive members: the shield being mounted on a PCB and connected to conductive members
H01R 13/6466
By adding capacitive elements: on substrates, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB]

Family

Application61/074,440Us provisional application · filed 20 Jun 2008
Application61/074,422Us provisional application · filed 20 Jun 2008
Application12/487,778Parent of this continuation · filed 19 Jun 2009
Application13/283,692Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Oct 2011
US 8,047,865 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 1 Nov 2011
US 2012/0190218 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Jul 2012
US 8,172,602 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2010/0029104 A1Published application
US 2012/0045942 A1Published application
US 8,298,002 B2This patent

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