Tyco Electronics Corporation

Te Connectivity Corporation

Te Connectivity Solutions Gmbh

The Whitaker Corporation

Te Connectivity Services Gmbh

Tyco Electronics (shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Tyco Electronics Japan G.k.

Tyco Electronics Singapore Pte Ltd.

Tyco Electronics Amp Qingdao Ltd

Brian Patrick Costello

Robert Paul Nichols

Christopher David Ritter

Arash Behziz

Michael David Herring

Joshua Tyler Sechrist

Christopher William Blackburn

Nathan Glenn Lehman

Jordan Marshall Cole

Chad William Morgan

Richard Elof Hamner

Edward John Bright

David Patrick Orris

Jason M'Cheyne Reisinger

David Wayne Helster

Michael James Horning

Nathan Lincoln Tracy

Scott Frederick Morin

Alex Michael Sharf

Timothy Robert Minnick

Justin Shane McClellan

Naoki Hashimoto

Keith McQuilkin Murr

Masayuki Aizawa

George R Defibaugh

Howard Wallace Andrews, Jr

Arturo Pachon Munoz

Alan Robert MacDougall

Jonathan Earl Buck

Douglas Edward Lawrence

Robert Neil Whiteman, Jr

Randall Robert Henry

John Joseph Consoli

Attalee Snarr Taylor

James Lee Fedder

Scott Stephen Duesterhoeft

Jeffery Walter Mason

James H Hyland

Jared Evan Rossman

Steven Jay Millard

Steven Lee Flickinger

Brandon Michael Matthews

Tracy Lee Smith

Harold William Kerlin

Donald E Wood

James Charles Shiffler

Sandeep Patel

Troy Everette Conner

Jeffrey Stewart Simpson

Earl C Myers, Jr

Matthew Jeffrey Sypolt

Evan Charles Wickes

Robert Wayne Walker

Michael Paul Derstine

Mai-Loan Thi Tran

Jonathan Roberts

Wei Zhao

Jiaoyong (Mac) Liu

Robert Alan Kirker

Qianjin Li

Daniel Eugene Stahl

Guoxiao Shen

Clarence Leon Yu

Jie (Roger) Luo

Hongqiang (Sean) Han

Cristian S Regus

Donald T Biechler

Candace Eileen Gillette

William Charles McGee, Iii

John Joseph Wetzel

Zhiqiang (Simon) Li

Jiefeng (Lear) Zhang

Guoxiao (Neo) Shen

Yun Jaan See

Scott D Spicer

Setha Yim

John W Eberenz

Barry D Holtzclaw

Michael S Abbott

Benjamin Jacobson

Mitchell Minh Trinh

James Pritulksy

Harshita Guduru

Jinqiang (Jeff) Wang

Stephen Wiseman

Richard Bruce Lloyd

Peter Goesseringer

Jie Luo

Stephen Hart

Danny Kwun-Man Chau

Matthew Schumacher

Wing Lian Choo

An electrical connector system includes a circuit card assembly and a pluggable module. The circuit card assembly including a host circuit board, a socket connector mounted to the host circuit board, and a guide rail extending along the host circuit board. The socket connector has a socket substrate having upper contacts having mating interfaces being accessible from above the socket connector and being coplanar. The guide rail has a guide feature and a module actuator. The pluggable module includes a module body operatively engaging the guide rail to guide mating of the module body with the guide rail in a module mating direction. The pluggable module includes an actuation feature engaging the module actuator to force mating of module contacts with the upper contacts in a contact mating direction transverse to the module mating direction.

Electrical connector system

A receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing having a mounting base at a rear configured to be mounted to a host circuit board. The receptacle connector includes a housing insert received in the receptacle housing. The housing insert includes a slot that receives a pluggable module. A flexible circuit is received in the receptacle housing and has a mating end in the housing insert for mating engagement with the pluggable module and a terminating end extending from the receptacle housing for termination to the host circuit board. A flexible circuit support is used to support the flexible circuit in the receptacle housing with support elements engage the flexible circuit to press the circuit conductors into mating engagement with the contacts of the pluggable module.

Receptacle connector

An electrical connector includes a connector housing having a base, a flange, and a plug. The connector housing has a contact channel holding a contact. The electrical connector includes a latch member integral with the connector housing and located within the flange. The latch member includes a deflectable latch arm and a latching finger extending from the latch arm. The plug is configured to be inserted into a panel opening of the panel in a loading direction. The connector housing is movable laterally relative to the panel in a latching direction to a latched position. The plug is movable in the panel opening in the latching direction. The latching finger engages an inner edge of the panel opening when the housing is in the latched position to hold the connector housing in the latched position.

Panel mount electrical connector

An electrical power connector includes a connector housing having a slot at a mating end of the connector housing configured to receive a power distribution assembly. The electrical power connector includes power contacts received in the connector housing configured to be is coupled to a power distribution contact of the power distribution assembly. The electrical power connector includes a monitoring device having a monitoring circuit, a monitoring sensor coupled to the monitoring circuit, and a monitoring transmitter coupled to the monitoring circuit. The monitoring sensor is coupled to the power contact to monitor an operating characteristic of the power contact. The monitoring circuit receives sensor signals from the monitoring sensor and the monitoring transmitter transmits monitoring signals from the monitoring circuit based on the operating characteristic of the power contact to a monitoring network remote from the electrical power connector.

Electrical power connector system

A back plate configured to support a circuit board includes a body. The body defines a central recess formed into a top surface thereof, and a raised main support column extending from the central recess and adapted to support the circuit board.

Back plate and electronic device

A connector for plugging into a bus bar comprises a housing with a first side wall, a second side wall, and a connecting channel between the first side wall and the second side wall. A plurality of power terminals each having an electrical connection part are provided inside the connecting channel and are adapted to electrically connect with the bus bar. A plurality of grounding terminals are each disposed on the first side wall and the second side wall outside the connecting channel respectively. Each of the grounding terminals have an elastic first finger. An auxiliary support member is provided and supports the first finger.

Bus bar connector

A busbar assembly includes a first busbar having a mating interface for mating with an electrical component to power the electrical component and a second busbar having a mating interface for mating with the electrical component to power the electrical component. The busbar assembly includes a first thermal conduit extending along the first busbar that allows liquid coolant to flow therethrough to dissipate heat from the first busbar. The busbar assembly includes a second thermal conduit extending along the second busbar that allows liquid coolant to flow therethrough to dissipate heat from the second busbar.

Coolant system for a busbar assembly

An electronic assembly includes an interposer assembly and a cable connector module coupled to the interposer assembly. The interposer assembly includes an array of compressible interposer contacts each having upper and lower mating interfaces defining separable mating interfaces. The cable connector module includes a cable connector having a module substrate including module contacts at a bottom of the module substrate coupled to the upper mating interfaces of the corresponding interposer contacts. The cable connector module includes a backshell including a backshell cavity that receives the cable connector. The backshell includes a compression member engaging the cable connector and pressing the cable connector in the direction of the interposer assembly to compress the interposer contacts.

Electronic assembly for a communication system

A connector assembly includes a power connector having first and second power interfaces that interface with first and second power components. The power connector includes a shell forming a cavity and having a shell slot at the first power interface to receive the first power component. A power contact is received in the cavity that extends between the first power interface and the second power interface to electrically connect the first power component to a power circuit of the second power component. The connector assembly includes a sense connector separate and discrete from the power connector. The sense connector includes first and second sense interfaces configured to interface with the first and second power components. The sense connector includes a housing holding a sense contact and electrically isolating the sense contact from the shell. The sense contact electrically connect the first power component to a sense circuit of the second power component.

Sense module for a power connector system

A power connector assembly transferring power between a supply connector assembly and a tap connector assembly includes a front interface module mated with the supply connector assembly and a rear interface module mounted to a host circuit board. The power connector assembly includes a power tap module between the front interface module and the rear interface module having power tap contacts each electrically connected to corresponding front and rear power contacts. Each power tap contact includes a tap interface exterior of the front housing and exterior of the rear housing configured to be terminated to the tap connector assembly. The power tap contact electrically connecting the front power contact and the tap connector assembly to transfer power from the supply connector assembly to the tap connector assembly.

Tap power connector assembly

An electronic assembly includes an electronic package having an integrated circuit component and interposer assemblies with compressible interposer contacts electrically connected thereto. Cable connector modules are coupled to the interposer assemblies. A cover assembly is coupled to the upper surface of the electronic package over the cable connector modules. The cover assembly includes bridge assemblies having plates in a plate stack that are independently movable. A load plate engages upper edges of the plates of the bridge assemblies and press against the plates to drive the bridge assemblies into the cable connector modules using compression hardware. The cable connector modules compress the interposer contacts of the interposer assemblies when the load plate presses the plates of the bridge assemblies into the cable connector modules.

Electronic assembly including a compression assembly for cable connector modules

A socket connector includes an array of socket contacts arranged in rows and columns. The socket contacts have upper mating interfaces for mating with a first electronic package and lower mating interfaces for mating with a second electronic package. The socket contacts are configured to electrically connect the first and second electronic packages. Each socket contact includes an upper cap, a lower cap, and a spring beam helically coiled between the upper cap and the lower cap. The spring beam is compressible. The upper cap, the lower cap and the spring beam are additive manufactured such that the upper cap, the lower cap and the spring beam form a unitary, three-dimensional conductive structure to electrically connect the first and second electronic packages.

Socket connector having array of socket contacts

An electronic assembly is provided and includes a host circuit board having an upper surface and board contacts on the upper surface. The upper surface has a mounting area. The electronic assembly includes a socket connector mounted to the host circuit board at the mounting area. The socket connector includes a socket housing holding a plurality of socket contacts. Each socket contact has an upper contact portion and a lower contact portion. The lower contact portion is electrically connected to the corresponding board contact of the host circuit board. The socket contact is compressible between the upper contact portion and the lower contact portion. The socket housing includes coolant channels configured to receive coolant. The electronic assembly includes an electronic package coupled to the socket connector. The electronic package has a lower surface and package contacts on the lower surface. The package contacts are electrically connected to the upper contact portions of the socket contacts.

Cooling system for socket connector

An electronic module includes a module substrate has an upper surface and a lower surface. The module substrate has a package pad array having package contact pads at the upper surface. The module substrate has a socket pad array having socket contact pads at the upper surface. The module substrate has guide pin locating pads associated with the socket pad array. The electronic module has an electronic package coupled to the package contact pads at the package pad array. The electronic module has guide pins surface mounted to the guide pin locating pads. The electronic module has a socket assembly coupled to the module substrate. The socket assembly has a socket housing holding socket contacts. The socket contacts are coupled to the socket contact pads at the socket pad array. The socket frame including pockets receiving the guide pins to locate the socket assembly relative to the module substrate.

Socket alignment and retention system

A power connector system for a circuit card assembly includes a board power connector and a cable power connector coupled to the board power connector. The board power connector includes a board housing having cavities that hold power contacts and signal contact channels on the bottom that hold signal contacts. The cable power connector has a cable housing having contact silos holding cable power contacts terminated to power cables. The contact silos and the cable power contacts are received in the cavities of the board housing to mate the cable power contacts with the board power contacts. The cable housing includes a platform below the contact silos holding cable signal contacts at the bottom of the cable housing outside of the contact silos for mating with the board signal contacts when the cable power connector is mated with the board power connector.

Power connector system for circuit card assembly

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