Earl Daughtry

Title: Earl Daughtry’s Electrical Connector Innovations.

Introduction

Earl Daughtry is an inventor associated with Middletown, Pennsylvania, and TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH. His work includes cable card assemblies designed to support electrical connections and signal transmission. The supplied information lists 2 patents.

Latest Patents

Daughtry’s listed patents address cable card assemblies for electrical connectors.

“Cable Card Assembly of an Electrical Connector” describes an assembly in which cables are terminated to a circuit card and held in position by a cable yoke. The yoke’s troughs receive the cables and connect electrically to their shields. A ground bus receives the yoke and cables, helping connect the cable shields to the circuit card’s ground plane.

“Cable Card Assembly of an Electrical Connector Having Capacitors” describes an assembly with twinaxial cables connected to circuit conductors on a circuit card. Capacitors connect corresponding cable pads and capacitor pads, with each capacitor oriented perpendicular to its cable’s axis.

Career Highlights

The supplied patent descriptions highlight Daughtry’s work on cable positioning, electrical shielding, grounding, and signal-path components in connector assemblies. These designs bring together cables, circuit cards, ground buses, and capacitors.

Collaborations

The supplied information identifies Richard Elof Hamner and Matthew Jeffrey Sypolt as Daughtry’s coworkers. It does not specify their roles in the listed patents.

Conclusion

Earl Daughtry’s listed inventions focus on practical features of electrical connector assemblies, including cable alignment, shielding, grounding, and capacitor integration.