×

Electrical connectors

  • US 4,806,110 A
  • Filed: 12/29/1986
  • Issued: 02/21/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/19/1986
  • Status: Expired due to Term
First Claim
Patent Images

1. An electrical connector assembly including a pair of mating connectors and arranged for high velocity propagation of electrical signals along a plurality of paths between first circuit means connected to one connector and second circuit means connected to the other connector, each connector comprising:

  • a plurality of signal contact elements for propagation of said signals, each having connection means at one end thereof for connection to a terminal of said first circuit or second circuit means and having a contact surface at an opposite end thereof for engagement with a contact surface of a contact element of the mating connector, common ground means for all of said contact elements including a plurality of ground plates each having connector means along one edge thereof for connection to a terminal of said first circuit means and having contact surface means along an opposite edge thereof for engagement with contact surface means of a ground plate of a mating connector, said contact surface means of one connector being in the form of multi-spring-fingered contact surface means along said opposite edge thereof for engagement with a pair of oppositely disposed contact surface means of a continuous ground plate of the mating connector, and support means for supporting all of said signal contact elements in a certain fixed and electrically insulated relation to each other and to said common ground means such as to obtain a uniform characteristic impedance along all signal paths through said mating connectors, said signal contact elements including a plurality of groups of elements, each group being associated with one of said ground plates and each being supported in at least one row in longitudinally spaced parallel relation to said associated ground plate.

View all claims
  • 3 Assignments
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×