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US 8,475,177 B2Granted
Backplane cable interconnection
AssigneeOhio Associated Enterprises, LLC
InventorsLarry M. Crofoot, John T. Venaleck
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Abstract
A backplane cabling interconnect scheme is provided that includes a wafer based cable termination and an organizer shroud. The shroud complements existing backplane connectors and provides positioning and polarization for the cable terminated wafer. The wafer cable ends can be stacked or arranged in various arrays and are held in place with an integral latch. A permanent latch is provided for high vibration environments.
Claims17
A backplane cable interconnection comprising:
- a shroud for surrounding contacts of a backplane;
- cable end modules installed in slots of the shroud, wherein each of the cable end modules includes:
- a printed circuit board having contact pads for engaging the contacts of the backplane;
- one or more cables having conductors that are coupled to the contact pads;
- and
- an overmold on the printed circuit board that mechanically couples the one or more cables to the printed circuit board;
- and
- holddowns that are mechanically coupled to the shroud to retain the cable end modules in the slots;
- wherein the holddowns disable a release feature of the cable end modules that would allow release of the cable end modules from the slot;
- and
- wherein the release feature includes, for each of the cable end modules, a central body, and a pair of arms emanating from the central body.
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A cable end module comprising:
- a printed circuit board having contact pads;
- one or more cables having conductors that are coupled to the contact pads;
- and
- an overmold on the printed circuit board that mechanically couples the one or more cables to the printed circuit board;
- wherein the overmold includes a protrusion and a protrusion-receiving recess on opposite sides;
- wherein the protrusion snaps into the protrusion-receiving recess of an adjacent of an adjacent cable end module;
- wherein for each of the cable end modules, the overmold includes a central body and a pair of arms emanating from opposite sides of the central body, wherein the arms are able to flex relative to the central body;
- and
- wherein the arms include latch protrusions for engaging latch windows in a shroud.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.