High speed electrical connector
First Claim
1. An electrical connector configured to be mated to a complementary electrical connector along a first direction, the electrical connector comprising:
- an electrically insulative connector housing including a divider wall and a plurality of ribs that project out from the divider wall, such that adjacent ones of the ribs define a plurality of pockets;
a plurality of signal contacts supported by the connector housing, each of the plurality of signal contacts defining a mounting end and a receptacle mating end, each receptacle mating end defining a tip that defines a concave surface and a convex surface opposite the concave surface; and
a plurality of ground contacts including a plurality of ground mounting ends and a plurality of ground mating ends;
wherein
1) the signal contacts are arranged in at least first and second linear arrays, the second linear array disposed immediately adjacent the first linear array along a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, such that the concave surfaces of the signal contacts of the first linear array face the concave surfaces of the signal contacts of the second linear array,
2) immediately adjacent signal contacts along each of the linear arrays defines respective differential signal pairs of adjacent ones of the signal contacts, the signal contacts of each of the differential signal pairs having respective receptacle mating ends, and each linear array includes one of the ground mating ends disposed between immediately adjacent ones of the respective differential signal pairs,
3) the ground mating ends are taller than each of the respective receptacle mating ends of the respective differential signal pairs along a third direction that is perpendicular to each of the first and second directions,
4) each of the pockets is sized to receive only a single one of a group that includes the receptacle mating ends and the ground mating ends, and
5) ones of the ground mating ends of the first linear array are offset along the third direction with respect to all of the ground mating ends of the second linear array.
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Abstract
Electrical connector assemblies are provided that include electrical connectors having electrical contacts that have receptacle mating ends are provided. The connector housings of the provided electrical connectors include alignment members that are capable of performing staged alignment of components of the electrical connector assemblies. The provided electrical connector assemblies and the electrical connectors provided therein are capable of operating at a data transfer rate of forty gigabits per second with worst case multi-active cross talk that does not exceed a range of about two percent to about four percent.
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57 Claims
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1. An electrical connector configured to be mated to a complementary electrical connector along a first direction, the electrical connector comprising:
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an electrically insulative connector housing including a divider wall and a plurality of ribs that project out from the divider wall, such that adjacent ones of the ribs define a plurality of pockets; a plurality of signal contacts supported by the connector housing, each of the plurality of signal contacts defining a mounting end and a receptacle mating end, each receptacle mating end defining a tip that defines a concave surface and a convex surface opposite the concave surface; and a plurality of ground contacts including a plurality of ground mounting ends and a plurality of ground mating ends; wherein
1) the signal contacts are arranged in at least first and second linear arrays, the second linear array disposed immediately adjacent the first linear array along a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, such that the concave surfaces of the signal contacts of the first linear array face the concave surfaces of the signal contacts of the second linear array,
2) immediately adjacent signal contacts along each of the linear arrays defines respective differential signal pairs of adjacent ones of the signal contacts, the signal contacts of each of the differential signal pairs having respective receptacle mating ends, and each linear array includes one of the ground mating ends disposed between immediately adjacent ones of the respective differential signal pairs,
3) the ground mating ends are taller than each of the respective receptacle mating ends of the respective differential signal pairs along a third direction that is perpendicular to each of the first and second directions,
4) each of the pockets is sized to receive only a single one of a group that includes the receptacle mating ends and the ground mating ends, and
5) ones of the ground mating ends of the first linear array are offset along the third direction with respect to all of the ground mating ends of the second linear array. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. An electrical connector configured to be mated to a complementary electrical connector along a first direction, the electrical connector comprising:
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an electrically insulative connector housing; and first and second leadframe assemblies each including a leadframe housing, a plurality of signal contacts supported by the leadframe housing so as to define a plurality of mating ends along a mating interface, and an electrically conductive ground plate attached to the leadframe housing, the ground plate defining a plurality of ground mounting ends extending out from the connector housing substantially along a longitudinal direction, respective ones of the ground mating ends disposed between and aligned with the mating ends of the signal contacts along a transverse direction that is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, wherein
1) the first leadframe assembly defines a first linear array of mating ends, and the second leadframe assembly defines a second linear array of mating ends,
2) the first leadframe assembly defines a single electrical widow contact disposed at a first end of the first linear array,
3) the second leadframe assembly defines a single widow contact disposed at a second end of the second linear array, the second end opposite the first end, and
4) each of the single widow contacts is not disposed adjacent any other electrical contacts, except a single ground mating end along the respective first and second linear arrays. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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48. An electrical connector configured to be mated to a complementary electrical connector along a first direction, the right-angle electrical connector comprising:
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an electrically insulative connector housing; a plurality of signal contacts, each of the plurality of signal contacts defining a mounting end and a mating end, immediately adjacent signal contacts defining respective differential pairs; and a plurality of ground mating ends aligned with the signal contacts along first and second adjacent linear arrays, such that each differential signal pair along the first linear array is flanked by a respective immediately adjacent one of the ground mating ends on opposite sides of the differential signal pair along the first linear array, and each differential signal pair along the second linear array is flanked by a respective immediately adjacent one of the ground mating ends on opposite sides of the differential signal pair along the second linear array, wherein the first linear array defines a single electrical widow contact disposed at a first end of the first linear array, and the second linear array defines a single widow contact disposed at a second end of the second linear array, the second end opposite the first end, and each of the widow contacts are single-ended signal contacts having a respective mating end aligned with the ground mating ends of the respective linear array, and a respective mounting end aligned with the ground mounting ends of the respective linear array. - View Dependent Claims (49, 50, 51, 52, 53)
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54. An electrical connector assembly comprising:
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a first electrical connector configured to be mounted to a first electrical component, the first electrical connector including; a first plurality of signal contacts, each of the first plurality of signal contacts defining a mounting end and a receptacle mating end, each receptacle mating end defining a tip that defines a first concave surface and a second convex surface opposite the first concave surface, an electrically insulative first connector housing supporting the first plurality of signal contacts, such that the first connector housing extends forward from the tips, the first connector housing defining at least one gross alignment member and at least one fine alignment member; wherein the first plurality of signal contacts is arranged in at least first and second linear arrays of signal contacts, such that the first concave surfaces of the signal contacts of the first linear array faces a direction opposite a direction that the first concave surfaces of the signal contacts of the second linear array face; and a second electrical connector configured to mate with the first electrical connector and further configured to be mounted to a second electrical component, the second electrical connector including; a second plurality of signal contacts, each of the second plurality of signal contacts defining a mounting end and a receptacle mating end, each receptacle mating end defining a tip that defines a first concave surface and a second convex surface opposite the first concave surface, an electrically insulative second connector housing supporting the second plurality of signal contacts, such that the first connector housing extends forward from the tips, the second connector housing defining at least one gross alignment member and at least one fine alignment member; wherein the second plurality of signal contacts is arranged in at least first and second linear arrays of signal contacts, such that the first concave surfaces of the signal contacts of the first linear array of the second plurality of signal contacts faces the first concave surfaces of the signal contacts of the second linear array of the second plurality of signal contacts, wherein the gross alignment members of the first and second connector housings are configured to engage each other to place the signal contacts of the first electrical connector in a first stage of alignment with the signal contacts of the second electrical, and the fine alignment members of the first and second connector housings are configured to engage each only other after the gross alignment members have engaged each other to place the signal contacts of the first electrical connector in a second stage of alignment with the signal contacts of the second electrical, the second stage of alignment more precise than the first stage of alignment. - View Dependent Claims (55, 56, 57)
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