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US 8,944,849 B1Granted
Electrical connector with two ground bars connecting each other
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsWen-Hui Yang, Chien-Ping Kao
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes an insulating housing and a plurality of contacts. The contacts include a plurality of signal contacts arranged in differential signal pairs and a plurality of ground contacts. Differential signal pairs are separated by signal contacts. A first ground bar connects each ground contact to form a first electrical connection. A second ground bar connects each ground contact to form a second electrical connection. The first ground bar is electrically connected to the second ground bar through at least a bridge.
Claims12
An electrical connector, comprising:
- an insulating housing;
- a plurality of contacts extending in a front-to-back direction and comprising differential signal pairs and individual ground contacts;
- a first ground bar connecting with said ground contacts to form a first electrical connection;
- a second ground bar connecting with said ground contacts to form a second electrical connection;
- wherein the first ground bar is electrically connected to the second ground bar through at least a bridge;
- wherein the first ground bar and the second ground bar extend along a transverse direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, and are located at a different lever with regard to the contacts, and said bridge extends along the front-to-back direction while not aligned with any of the differential signal pairs in a vertical direction perpendicular to both said front-to-back direction and said transverse direction;
- wherein said contacts are of two groups with different pitches thereof, and each of said first ground bar and the second ground bar defines arms contacting both two groups;
- wherein the contacts of said two groups are located at two different levels while the first ground bar and the second ground bar are located a same level;
- wherein the contacts of said two groups are disposed in a same mating tongue but on two opposite surfaces thereof, and the arms contacting said two groups extend in different levels, respectively;
- the elastic arms which extend from a body of the first ground bar are offset from the elastic arms which extend from a body of the second ground bar.
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An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- a first electrical connector comprising a first insulating housing with a plurality of contacts and two first ground bars, said contacts includes differential signal pairs and ground contacts, said first ground bars electrically connects said ground contacts respectively;
- a second electrical connector mating with said first electrical connector and comprising a second insulating housing with a plurality of contacts and
- two second ground bars, said contacts includes differential signal pairs and ground contacts, one of the second ground bar electrically connects said ground contacts respectively;
- wherein said first ground bars are electrically connected to each other and said second ground bars are electrically connected to each other;
- wherein the first ground bar and the second ground bar extend along a transverse direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, and are located at a different lever with regard to the contacts, and said bridge extends along the front-to-back direction while not aligned with any of the differential signal pairs in a vertical direction perpendicular to both said front-to-back direction and said transverse direction;
- wherein said contacts are of two groups with different pitches thereof, and each of said first ground bar and the second ground bar defines arms contacting both two groups;
- wherein the contacts of said two groups are located at two different levels while the first ground bar and the second ground bar are located a same level;
- wherein the contacts of said two groups are disposed in a same mating tongue but on two opposite surfaces thereof, and the arms contacting said two groups extend in different levels, respectively;
- the elastic arms which extend from a body of the first ground bar are offset from the elastic arms which extend from a body of the second ground bar.
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An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- an insulative housing extending along a transverse direction;
- a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing and arranged in at least one row along the transverse direction while each of said contacts extending along a front-to-back direction perpendicular to said transverse direction, said contacts being categorized with differential pairs and grounding contacts;
- a grounding device extending along the transverse direction and located at a different level with regard to the contacts in a vertical direction perpendicular to both said front-to-back direction and said transverse direction;
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- means for forming on the grounding device electrically and mechanically connecting at least one of said grounding contacts at two spaced positions along said front-to-back direction;
- wherein said grounding device includes first and second grounding bars spaced from each other in the front-to-back direction while each extending along the transverse direction;
- wherein said means for having resilient arms respectively extending from said first grounding bar and said second bar to contact the same grounding contact at said two spaced positions, respectively;
- wherein said first grounding bar and said second grounding bar are linked by at least one bridge extending along the front-to-back direction;
- wherein said bridge is not aligned with any differential pairs in the vertical direction;
- the elastic arms which extend from a body of the first ground bar are offset from the elastic arms which extend from a body of the second ground bar.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.