Electrical cable assembly
    81.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11063379B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-13

    申请号:US16841491

    申请日:2020-04-06

    申请人: FCI USA LLC

    发明人: Charles M. Gross

    摘要: An electrical cable assembly includes a plurality of electrical cables, and a plurality of interposers configured to be mounted to a substrate at a first end, and mounted to electrical conductors of the electrical cables at a second end that is offset from the first end. The electrical cable assembly further includes an alignment housing that supports the interposers, and further defines a conduit to receive the drain wires of the electrical cables that are mounted to the substrate.

    I/O CONNECTOR CONFIGURED FOR CABLED CONNECTION TO THE MIDBOARD

    公开(公告)号:US20200244025A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-30

    申请号:US16751013

    申请日:2020-01-23

    申请人: FCI USA LLC

    摘要: An I/O connector assembly configured for making a cabled connection to an interior portion of a printed circuit board for at least some signals passing through the I/O connector. The I/O connector assembly may be assembled by mounting a cage to a printed circuit board. A receptacle connector, including cables extending from a rear of the connector, may be inserted through an opening in the top or rear of the cage. The receptacle connector may be positioned in the cage by at least one retention member on the cage. A plug, mating to the receptacle connector, also may be positioned by a retention member on the cage. Positioning both the plug and receptacle relative to the cage reduces the tolerance stackup of the assembly and enables the connectors to be designed with shorter wipe length, which enables higher frequency operation.

    Electrical connector having ribbed ground plate

    公开(公告)号:US10720721B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-21

    申请号:US16120164

    申请日:2018-08-31

    申请人: FCI USA LLC

    摘要: An electrical connector includes a dielectric housing, a plurality of electrical signal contacts carried by the dielectric housing, and a ground plate carried by the dielectric housing. The electrical signal contacts are arranged along a first plane, wherein the signal contacts define signal pairs. The signal contacts further define respective mating and mounting ends. The ground plate includes a ground plate body oriented in a second plane that is substantially parallel to the first plane and offset from the first plane. The ground plate body defines first and second opposed surfaces. The ground plate includes at least one rib that defines first and second opposed surfaces, wherein the first surface of the rib projects from the first surface of the ground plate body in a direction toward the first plane between adjacent signal pairs, and the second surface is recessed into the second surface of the ground plate body.

    CONNECTORS FOR LOW COST, HIGH SPEED PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS

    公开(公告)号:US20200083625A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-12

    申请号:US16563502

    申请日:2019-09-06

    申请人: FCI USA LLC

    发明人: Steven E. Minich

    摘要: A connector with contact tails configured to provide a connector footprint enabling a low cost printed circuit board. The contact tails are positioned to leave routing channels, parallel to an edge of a printed circuit board, within the connector footprint. The routing channels may enable routing of high speed signal traces out of the connector footprint on a small number of routing layers. In a connector with 16 columns, each with 8 pairs of signal traces, two routing layers may be adequate to route traces connecting all of the signal vias in the connector footprint to components at the interior of the printed circuit board.

    ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH HERMAPHRODITIC TERMINAL AND HOUSING

    公开(公告)号:US20200021069A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-16

    申请号:US16456657

    申请日:2019-06-28

    申请人: FCI USA LLC

    发明人: James M. Sabo

    IPC分类号: H01R24/84 H01R13/28

    摘要: A power connector assembly with hermaphroditic power connectors. The housing and the terminals of first and second mating power connectors may have like mating interfaces. The first power connector may include a plurality of first terminals, where the mating portion of each first terminal of the plurality of first terminals includes a first flat portion, and a first bent portion coupled to the first flat portion and including a first set of fingers parallel to the first flat portion. The second power connector may include a plurality of second terminals, where each second terminal of the plurality of second terminals includes a mating portion with a second flat portion, and a second bent portion coupled to the second flat portion and including a second set of fingers parallel to the second flat portion.

    HIGH FREQUENCY BGA CONNECTOR
    87.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190387638A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-19

    申请号:US16553285

    申请日:2019-08-28

    申请人: FCI USA LLC

    摘要: A connector for surface mounting with a solder reflow process with closely-spaced solder masses on mounting ends of reference contacts. The solder masses on the reference contacts may fuse for enhanced shielding. The mounting ends of signal and reference contacts may be positioned in rows, configured such that the solder masses of the reference contacts may shield solder masses attached to signal contacts in adjacent rows. The mounting ends of the signal contacts may be disposed in pockets in a surface of the connector housing. In some embodiments, solder balls may be fused to an edge of the signal contact, with the length of the edge extending beyond locations at which the solder ball is fused to. The edge may extend through a wall of the pocket, so as to set a desired impedance in the mounting region of the connector.

    Hermetically sealed electrical connector assembly

    公开(公告)号:US10439317B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-08

    申请号:US15511992

    申请日:2015-09-10

    申请人: FCI USA LLC

    摘要: The interposer can include a substrate and first and second electrical connectors mounted to the substrate. The first electrical connector is configured to mate with a hard disk drive subassembly, and the second electrical connector is configured to mate with a flat flex circuit subassembly. The hard disk drive subassembly includes a hard disk drive case, a printed circuit board, and a third electrical connector mounted to the printed circuit board. The first and third electrical connectors are configured to mate with each other through the hard disk drive case so as to mate the interposer to the hard disk drive subassembly. The hard disk drive case can be hermetically sealed to the substrate of the interposer to prevent gas leakage

    Electrical connector with contact configured for surface mount

    公开(公告)号:US10355386B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-16

    申请号:US15548534

    申请日:2016-02-03

    申请人: FCI USA LLC

    发明人: Aymeric Soudy

    摘要: An electrical connector including a housing; and a plurality of electrical contacts connected to the housing. Each of the contacts includes opposing cantilevered contact arms configured to receive a male contact of a mating electrical connector therebetween. Each of the contacts has a retention feature assisting in locating the contact in a contact receiving area of the housing and a first surface mount solder tail.

    High frequency BGA connector
    90.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10320098B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-11

    申请号:US15964284

    申请日:2018-04-27

    申请人: FCI USA LLC

    摘要: A connector for surface mounting with a solder reflow process with solder masses fused to mounting ends of contacts exposed in a mounting surface of the connector. The solder masses may be attached to edges of the mounting ends using a pin transfer method to apply flux to the edges. The edges may have a concave shape to both increase the length of the edge to which the solder masses are attached and position the solder masses with respect to the mounting ends. Solder paste may be omitted in attaching the solder balls to the contacts, reducing the capacitance of the contact and promoting uniformity of the impedance of the signal paths through the mounting interface of the connector.