公开(公告)号：US20200274300A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-27

申请号：US16286840

申请日：2019-02-27

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： John Joseph Consoli ,  Chad William Morgan ,  Timothy Robert Minnick ,  David Wayne Helster ,  Ting Gao ,  Jialing Wang ,  Mark Wartenberg

IPC: H01R13/6585

Abstract: An electrical connector including a housing defining an interior cavity and extending from a mounting end to an engagement end, and at least one signal component disposed within the interior cavity of the housing. The housing is formed from a conductive composite material and engages the at least one signal component to shield the interior cavity.

公开(公告)号：US20200076107A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-05

申请号：US16120788

申请日：2018-09-04

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION ,  Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Michael John Phillips ,  Randall Robert Henry ,  Timothy Robert Minnick ,  Justin Dennis Pickel ,  Liang Huang

IPC: H01R13/115 ,  H01R12/73 ,  H01R13/6474

Abstract: A contact includes a main body having a top, a bottom, a first side and a second side. The contact includes a terminating end extending from the main body and a mating beam extending from the main body opposite the terminating end. The mating beam has a root at the main body and a tip opposite the root. The mating beam has an elongated coupling base between the root and the tip. The elongated coupling base has a bottom surface configured to face a mating contact being generally parallel to the mating contact between the root and the tip.

公开(公告)号：US10283914B1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-07

申请号：US15795400

申请日：2017-10-27

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： Chad William Morgan ,  John Joseph Consoli ,  Justin Dennis Pickel ,  Timothy Robert Minnick

IPC: H01R13/648 ,  H01R13/6588 ,  H01R12/71 ,  H01R13/6597 ,  H01R13/6594 ,  H01R13/6587

Abstract: A connector assembly includes a housing and contact modules having signal contacts with signal pins and a ground shield providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts with ground pins. The connector assembly includes a conductive gasket compressible between the bottoms of the contact modules and the circuit board. The conductive gasket has a top and a bottom facing the circuit board. The conductive gasket has signal openings extending therethrough receiving corresponding signal pins in spaced apart locations to electrically isolate the signal pins from the conductive gasket. The conductive gasket at least partially fills a space between the bottoms of the contact modules and the circuit board to provide electrical shielding for the signal pins between the bottoms of the contact modules and the circuit board.

公开(公告)号：US20190081441A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-14

申请号：US15700292

申请日：2017-09-11

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： Timothy Robert Minnick ,  Xingling Zhou ,  Justin Dennis Pickel

IPC: H01R13/6588 ,  H01R12/71 ,  H01R13/6594

Abstract: A header connector includes header ground shields each having a main panel, a first side panel extending from a first side of the main panel and a second side panel extending from a second side of the main panel. The main panel, the first side panel and the second side panel define a shield pocket receiving and shielding a signal contact. The first side panel includes a first overlapping segment and a first engagement segment and the second side panel includes a second overlapping segment and a second engagement segment. The header ground shields are arranged in shield columns and corresponding header ground shields in the same shield column engage adjacent header ground shields such that the first overlapping segments overlap second engagement segments of the adjacent header ground shield and such that the second overlapping segments overlap first engagement segments of the adjacent header ground shield.

公开(公告)号：US10566740B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-18

申请号：US16180199

申请日：2018-11-05

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： David Allison Trout ,  Justin Dennis Pickel ,  Jeffrey Byron McClinton ,  Timothy Robert Minnick ,  Chad William Morgan ,  John Joseph Consoli

IPC: H01R13/648 ,  H01R13/652 ,  H01R13/6583 ,  H01R13/6587 ,  H01R13/6471

Abstract: A contact module includes a dielectric holder holding signal contacts having mating portions extending forward of the dielectric holder. A shield structure is coupled to the dielectric holder providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts. The shield structure has first and second ground shields having corresponding mating portions extending forward of the mating end of the dielectric holder. The shield structure has ground blades extending between the first and second ground shields having mating portions extending forward of the mating end of the dielectric holder at least one of above or below the mating portions of the signal contacts. The ground blades electrically connect the mating portions of the first ground shield and the mating portions of the second ground shield immediately forward of the mating end of dielectric holder.

公开(公告)号：US10559929B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-11

申请号：US16224299

申请日：2018-12-18

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： Justin Dennis Pickel ,  Timothy Robert Minnick ,  Arturo Pachon Munoz ,  Sean Patrick McCarthy

IPC: H01R13/6587 ,  H01R12/73 ,  H01R13/6471

Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) includes a substrate and a PCB connector footprint defined along a longitudinal axis and a lateral axis being subdivided into PCB column grouping footprints in columns parallel to the longitudinal axis. The PCB includes signal vias arranged in pairs along a signal pair axis. The pairs of signal vias are aligned in the columns parallel to the longitudinal axis and in rows parallel to the lateral axis. The signal pair axis is non-parallel to the lateral and longitudinal axes. The PCB includes ground vias with at least one ground via arranged between adjacent pairs of signal vias within the PCB column grouping footprints and at least one ground via is arranged between adjacent pairs of signal vias in adjacent PCB column grouping footprints. This orientation is to allow more spacing between the signal vias and some ground vias to enhance signal integrity.

公开(公告)号：US10355416B1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-16

申请号：US15936631

申请日：2018-03-27

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： Justin Dennis Pickel ,  Arturo Pachon Munoz ,  Timothy Robert Minnick

IPC: H01R13/648 ,  H01R13/6477 ,  H01R13/405 ,  H01R12/72 ,  H01R13/6586 ,  H01R13/514

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a contact module having a dielectric frame holding conductors. The conductors extend between a mating end and a terminating end and have a transition portion between the corresponding mating end and the terminating end passing through the dielectric frame. The transition portions of the conductors have opposite first and second sides and opposite first and second edges between the first and second sides. The dielectric frame has opposite first and second sides generally parallel to the first and second sides of the transition portions. The dielectric frame has insertion loss control windows in at least one of the first side and the second side defining air pockets exposing exposed portions of the corresponding transition portions to air. The size and shape of the insertion loss control windows controlling insertion loss along the conductors.

公开(公告)号：US10811801B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-20

申请号：US15810744

申请日：2017-11-13

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： Justin Dennis Pickel ,  John Joseph Consoli ,  Chad William Morgan ,  Timothy Robert Minnick ,  David Patrick Orris ,  Daniel Briner Shreffler ,  David Allison Trout ,  Arturo Pachon Munoz

IPC: H01R13/03 ,  H01R12/71 ,  H01R13/646 ,  H01R13/6587

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a plurality of conductors held within the housing. The conductors are configured to electrically connect to mating conductors of a mating connector. The conductors each extend a length between a mating end and a mounting end of the respective conductor. One or more of the conductors include a copper alloy core, a copper plating layer, and a protective outer layer. The copper plating layer surrounds the copper alloy core, and is composed of a different material than the copper alloy core. The protective outer layer is disposed on and surrounds the copper plating layer. The protective outer layer is composed of a non-conductive polymeric material.

公开(公告)号：US10790618B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-29

申请号：US16224494

申请日：2018-12-18

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： Arturo Pachon Munoz ,  Sean Patrick McCarthy ,  Justin Dennis Pickel ,  Timothy Robert Minnick

IPC: H01R13/6587 ,  H01R13/504 ,  H01R12/73

Abstract: A header connector includes signal contacts, header shields and a header housing holding the signal contacts and the header shields. The signal contacts each have a base, a mating pin and a mounting portion. The header shields have walls defining shield pockets receiving corresponding pairs of the signal contacts to provide electrical shielding for the pairs of signal contacts. Each header shield has a base and a mounting portion. The header housing has a front shell and a rear shell. The front shell is dielectric and the rear shell is conductive and providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts. The front shell holds the signal contacts. The rear shell holds the header shields and is electrically connected to each of the header shields.

公开(公告)号：US20200176934A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-04

申请号：US16781335

申请日：2020-02-04

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： David Allison Trout ,  Justin Dennis Pickel ,  Jeffrey Byron McClinton ,  Timothy Robert Minnick ,  Chad William Morgan ,  John Joseph Consoli

IPC: H01R13/652 ,  H01R13/6471 ,  H01R13/6587 ,  H01R13/6583

Abstract: A contact module includes a dielectric holder holding signal contacts having mating portions extending forward of the dielectric holder. A shield structure is coupled to the dielectric holder providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts. The shield structure has first and second ground shields having corresponding mating portions extending forward of the mating end of the dielectric holder. The shield structure has ground blades extending between the first and second ground shields having mating portions extending forward of the mating end of the dielectric holder at least one of above or below the mating portions of the signal contacts. The ground blades electrically connect the mating portions of the first ground shield and the mating portions of the second ground shield immediately forward of the mating end of dielectric holder.