Molex Corporation

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Craig A Bixler

John C Laurx

Richard A Nelson

Neil A Martin

Michael O'Sullivan

Irvin R Triner

Kent E Regnier

Frank A Harwath

Jerry A Long

David E Dunham

Brian P O'Malley

Glenn A Landgraf

David R Schmidgall

Susan M Reed

Manqian Wang

Tom Carlson

Michael O'3 Sullivan

A check valve according to some embodiments of the disclosure includes a body forming a cavity and which defines an entrance opening, a wall extending from the body at an end opposite to the entrance opening, and rare-earth magnets attached to the wall. The body and wall are formed of a flexible and resilient material. The wall includes elongated wall portions joined together by end portions and a passageway extending from the cavity to a slit at the end of the wall. Interior surfaces of the wall portions abut against each other in an at rest condition, and the interior surfaces of the wall portions are separated from each other in a flow permitting condition such that the passageway is opened. The attractive force generated by the magnets cause the wall portions to move to the at rest condition.

Check valve

A differential pair connector has a housing floor, an array of differential pairs passing through the housing floor, and a conductive grid integrated into the housing floor for reducing crosstalk between the differential pairs. The conductive grid can have various structures, such as conductive inserts, plated regions and/or a conductive housing floor surrounding non-conductive inserts protecting the differential pins. Although any suitable means can be used to fasten the conductive grid into the housing floor, the grid is preferably press fitted into the top of the housing floor.

Connector with insert for reduced crosstalk

A differential pair connector includes a housing having receptacles for receiving differential pair conductors and electrically conductive shielding tabs extending away from the housing between the receptacles for reducing crosstalk between the differential pairs. The tabs insert into a mated connector when an interconnect is formed. By inserting into the second connector, the shield tabs extend a larger ground plane around each differential pair, thus significantly reducing crosstalk within the connector. The connector can be a high density GbX&#xae; style daughter card connector mated to a GbX&#xae; style backplane connector.

Differential pair electrical connector having crosstalk shield tabs

Differential pair connector featuring reduced crosstalk

A high speed connector includes a plurality of wafer-style components in which two columns of conductive terminals are supported in an insulative support body, the body including an internal cavity disposed between the two columns of conductive terminals. The terminals are arranged in horizontal pairs, and the internal cavity defines an air channel between each horizontal pair of terminals arranged in the two columns of terminals. The terminals are further aligned with each other in each row so that horizontal faces of the terminals in the two rows face each other to thereby promote broadside coupling between horizontal pairs of terminals.

High-density, robust connector

An electrical connector assembly is provided for mounting on a printed circuit board. The assembly includes a housing having a front mating face, a rear face and a board mounting face. A plurality of terminals are mounted on the housing and include contact portions extending toward the front mating face and tail portions extending at an angle to the contact portions for connection to the printed circuit board. A tail aligner is mounted on the tail portions of the terminals and is free of the housing spaced rearwardly of the rear face thereof. A cover at least partially encloses the rear face of the housing and the tail portions of the terminals. The cover is secured to the housing and is latched to the tail aligning device.

Electrical connector with terminal tail aligning device

An electrical connector includes an elongated dielectric housing having a front mating face and rear face with a plurality of terminal-receiving passageways extending therebetween. The rear face extends between opposite ends of the housing and is devoid of any substantial projections which might prevent a terminal-insertion tool from being moved into proximity with the rear face. A plurality of terminals are received in the passageways. Each terminal includes a forwardly projecting contact portion and a tail portion projecting rearwardly from the housing beyond the rear face thereof. An elongated tail aligning device is mountable on the housing and has a plurality of apertures through which the tail portions of the terminals extend. The tail aligning device has wing portions near opposite ends thereof projecting generally transversely of the rear face of the housing to protect the tail portions of the terminals and to stabilize the connector.

An electrical connector includes a dielectric housing having a forwardly projecting mating portion. A plurality of terminals are mounted on the housing with contact portions in a side-by-side array and exposed on the forwardly projecting mating portion for engagement by the contacts of the appropriate complementary mating connector. The forwardly projecting mating portion includes a section thereof extending rearwardly over the forward end of at least one but not all of the contact portions of the terminals such that the at least one contact portion is engageable by a respective one of the contacts of the mating connector after engagement of the other contact portions by their respective contacts.

Electrical connector

A retention system is provided for an electrical connector mountable to a substrate such as a printed circuit board. A dielectric housing has electrical terminals mounted therein, and the housing is adapted for mounting on a surface of the circuit board with the terminals establishing electrical connection to appropriate circuits on the board. The housing includes at least one mounting portion projecting generally parallel to the board in proximity to the surface thereof. A generally U-shaped hold-down clip has a bight portion spanning proximal ends of a pair of leg portions. The leg portions are configured for depending generally along opposite sides of the mounting portion of the housing, with feet portions at distal ends of the leg portions for surface mounting to the surface of the printed circuit board. A complementary interengaging retaining system is provided between the bight portion of the hold-down clip and the mounting portion of the housing for retaining the clip thereon.

Retention system for electrical connectors on printed circuit boards

A shielded electrical connector is provided for interconnection to a multi-conductor cable. The connector includes an insulative housing having a front mating face and a rear conductor-receiving face. A conductive shell is disposed about at least a portion of the housing and has an aperture near the rear face of the housing. A pair of conductive shield halves enclose the rear conductor-receiving face of the housing and define a cavity extending rearward therefrom. The shield halves have hooks for engaging beneath portions of the shell proximate the aperture as the shield halves are rotated about the hooks to form the cavity. A fulcrum projection is operatively associated between the shield halves intermediate the front and rear ends thereof for pivoting the shield halves about the fulcrum projection as the shield halves are rotated about the hooks. Thus, the hooks are urged outwardly to positively engage the portions of the shell to assure an electrical connection between the shield halves and the shell.

Shielded electrical connector

A terminal alignment system is provided for an electrical connector assembly disclosed as an insulation displacement type connector for terminating a plurality of insulated conductors of a multi-conductor cable. The connector includes a dielectric housing having a plurality of terminal-receiving passageways for the insertion thereinto of a plurality of terminals in a given insertion direction. Each terminal includes an insulation displacement section at one end for piercing the insulation about one of the conductors, a contact section at an opposite end for mating with a mating terminal, and an intermediate securing section between the ends for securing the terminal in a respective one of the passageways. The insulation displacement section of each terminal includes a notch facing in the insertion direction. The housing includes a rib for interengagement with each notch. Therefore, upon insertion of the terminals into the passageways, the notch of each terminal engages a respective rib to accurately align the insulation displacement section of the terminal prior to termination thereof to one of the insulated conductors. The terminal notches and the housing ribs are located within the bounds of the insulation displacement sections.

Electrical connector assembly with terminal alignment system

An electrical connector assembly having a low insertion force, high normal force mating contact structure comprising a male terminal and a female terminal. The contact portions of the female terminal are adapted to electrically engage the lead-in portion of the male terminal as the male terminal is inserted into the mouth between the contact portion of the female terminal. The lead-in portion of the male terminal is split and defines a pair of diverging beams extending forwardly and angled outwardly from the final contact area. The beams have inwardly facing, laterally offset, opposing camming portions adapted to engage and increasingly deflect the contact portions of the spring arms of the female terminal as the male terminal is moved from an initial position to a final position wherein the female contact portions are in engagement with the final contact area of the male terminal. The normal forces between the contact portions of the spring arms and the corresponding camming portion gradually increase until the final mated position is achieved. The split male configuration allows for increased terminal mating length and adjustment of the wiping action of the contacts as desired.

Low insertion force mating electrical contact structure

A latching system is disclosed for use in an electrical connector system which includes a backplane connector mounted on a backplane of an electrical apparatus, along with a mating connector mateable with the backplane connector in a direction generally perpendicular to the backplane. The latching system includes a latching device independent of the backplane and mating connectors. The device includes a latch arm projecting from the backplane, and a hook portion engageable with a latching surface on the mating connector for holding the mating connector in mated condition with the backplane connector.

Electrical connector latching system

An electrical connector assembly is provided for terminating a multi-conductor cable. The assembly includes a conductive guide member having a plurality of channels for positioning the conductors of the multi-conductor cable whereby the conductors can be trimmed along an edge of the guide member. A cover member is profiled for engagement with the conductor guide member, with a portion of the cover member covering exposed ends of the trimmed conductors. A base assembly mounts a plurality of terminals and is profiled for aligning the terminals for termination to respective conductors when the base assembly is assembled with the conductor guide member and cover member. The cover member is sandwiched between the conductive guide member and the base assembly and includes a plurality of apertures through which the terminals project for termination to the conductors. The connector includes a conductive backshell formed by a pair of backshell halves. The backshell halves provide strain relief for the cable, a clamping device for a drain wire from the cable and a ground connection for a shield of the base assembly. A mating connector is disclosed and includes a molded plastic housing and a metal shield for mating with the electrical connector assembly for the multi-conductor cable.

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Elmhurst, IL, United States of America

Craig A Bixler