Amphenol Corporation

Barbara Heather Marten

Zlatan Ljubijankic

Peter Ervin Jay

Valeria Caraiani

Andy Toffelmire

Ming Jong

Andrew B Matus

Karen Anne Gibson

John Leslie Brooks

John Peter Van Den Enden

Alfranco Salcedo

Stewart Clark

Karen A Gibson

Vali Caraiani

Peter E Jay

An electrical connector and method of assembling an electrical connector that is configured for mounting to a printed circuit board. The electrical connector has interleaved contact wafers to form one or more contact wafer assemblies that are supported by an insert of the electrical connector, such that the one or more contact wafer assemblies form a predetermined arrangement of mating ends of the plurality of contacts at a mating interface of the electrical connector.

Printed circuit board electrical connector and assembly method for the same

An electrical connector, and method of assembly, that has a conductive connector shell and a contact subassembly received therein. The contact subassembly has first and second signal wafers and a ground wafer sandwiched between the signal wafers. Each of the signal wafers includes one or more signal contacts and a dielectric wafer body formed around the signal contacts such that the tail and mating ends of the signal contacts are outside of the wafer body. The ground wafer includes one or more ground contacts and a dielectric wafer body formed around the ground contacts such that the tail ends of the ground contacts are outside of the wafer body of the ground wafer.

Electrical connector wafer assembly

A method of assembling an electrical connector that is configured for mounting to a printed circuit board. The method has the steps of providing contact wafers with a plurality of contacts; bending the tail ends of each contact wafer; interleaving the contact wafers to form one or more contact wafer assemblies; loading the contact wafer assemblies into an insert of the electrical connector, such that the one or more contact wafer assemblies form a predetermined arrangement of mating ends of the plurality of contacts at a mating interface of the electrical connector; and inserting the insert into a shell of the electrical connector.

Assembly method for a printed circuit board electrical connector

A wafer assembly for an electrical connector, and method for making, that has a first and second wafers configured to interlock with one another. Each of the wafers has at least one contact that has a body portion with a mating end for coupling to a mating contact and a tail end opposite the mating end for engaging a printed circuit board where the mating and tail ends extend from opposite sides of the wafer. A conductive spring member is sandwiched between the first and second wafers. The wafer assembly can include one or more electronic components in electrical contact with the spring member and one of the contacts.

Wafer assembly for electrical connector

A wafer assembly for an electrical connector that has a first and second wafers configured to interlock with one another. Each of the wafers has at least one contact that has a body portion with a mating end for coupling to a mating contact and a tail end opposite the mating end for engaging a printed circuit board and an overmold covering the body portion such that the mating and tail ends extend from opposite sides of the overmold. A conductive elongated spring member is sandwiched between the first and second wafers. The wafer assembly can include one or more filter components.

Filter wafer assembly for electrical connector

A contact wafer that has a plurality of contacts. Each of the contacts has a body portion with a mating end and an opposite tail end. The mating end is configured to couple to a mating contact and the tail end is configured to engage a printed circuit board. An overmold surrounds the body portions of the contacts such that the mating ends and the tails ends of the contacts are exposed and extend from opposite ends of said overmold. The overmold has a first side that includes a plurality of recessed surfaces. Each recessed surface is between adjacent body portions of the contacts and sized to receive a corresponding portion of an overmold of another contact wafer.

Overmolded contact wafer and connector

An electrical connector assembly that has first and second connectors. The first connector includes a main body, a locking member, and first engagement members. The locking member includes an indented portion. The second connector receives the first connector. The second connector includes a main body and a latching member. The latching member includes a biasing member and second engagement members configured to receive the first engagement members. The locking member is configured to deflect the biasing member when the first connector is inserted into the second connector such that the biasing member engages the indented portion thereby retaining the locking member in a locked position and indicating proper mating of the connectors. The latching member slides with respect to the main body of the second connector to a latched position until the second engagement members receive the first engagement members for securely mating the connectors.

Latching connector assembly

A connector has a plastic housing () with a plurality of cavities or holes () for accepting 'chips' (), i.e., electrical elements such as transient suppression diodes, capacitors, metal oxide varisters, spark gap devices, and so on, connected between the a contact () and ground for RFI or EMI suppression or the like. The contacts have shoulders with chip-contacting areas (), preferably one surface of an annular flange (). This allows numerous cavities to be arrayed around the axis of the contact (which can be radially symmetrical) so that numerous chips can be put in parallel between the contact and ground. In the case of capacitor chips, for example, this allows increasing the capacitance or varying the capacitance from one contact to the next. Grounding the ends of the chips opposite the contact shoulder is through a conductive spring, which can be a tine () bent from the inner periphery of an opening in a sheet-metal ground plate (), or else can be a distinct item such as a piece of conductive elastomer (). The ground plate is preferably fitted into the bottom of the housing along with a plastic retention insert which acts as a platform to supporting the tines and resist the force of the springs against the chips. The ground plate can be embodied as one or two ground strips running along either side of the connector. A contact has compliant tines that are augmented with an internal coiled spring. The contacts can be used (but are not limited in application) in a connector press fit into a PCB.

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Barbara Heather Marten