Tyco Electronics Corporation

Te Connectivity Corporation

Te Connectivity Solutions Gmbh

Tyco Electronics Canada Ulc

Mercury Systems, Inc.

Dustin Carson Belack

Matthew Richard McAlonis

Chong Hun Yi

Kevin Michael Thackston

Albert Tsang

Kyle Gary Annis

Nicholas Paul Ruffini

Keith Edwin Miller

Lynn Robert Sipe

Hung Thai Nguyen

Kenneth Paul Dowhower

Matthew Richard Mcalonis

Robert Neil Mulfinger

Brent David Yohn

George H Douty

Michael James Horning

Graham Harry Smith, Jr

Darryl J McKenney

Lawrence Se-Jun Oh

Scott Eric Walton

John Louis McKibben

John Anthony Fulponi

Denver Harley Wilson

James Scott Showers

Thomas Gregory Gartlan

Erica L Ouellette

William Wade Haymaker

Graham Henry Smith, Jr

Simon Boutin

Craig Allen Clingan

Simon Andre Boutin

Darryl J Mckenney

An assembly for terminating a high speed cable. The assembly includes a shell housing having a mating end and a conductor receiving end. A mating portion extends from the mating end. The mating portion has a contact receiving opening with an inside wall which extends circumferentially around the opening. A crosstalk shield is provided in the shell housing. Contacts are positioned in the contact receiving opening of the housing. The contacts terminate high speed conductors of the high speed cable. A nonconductive component is provided on the inside wall in the mating portion of the shell housing. The nonconductive component electrically and physically isolates the contacts from the shell housing.

Isolation component for a tightly packaged high speed connector

A connector assembly is provided comprising, a conductive shell extending between a mating end and a back end opposite the mating end. The shell being generally cylindrical and extending along a longitudinal axis. The shell having a chamber forward of a base and being open at the mating end for receiving the mating connector. The base having an insulator pocket aligned with the longitudinal axis and extending between the chamber and the back end. And a center pin received in the pocket and extending through the base along the longitudinal axis into the chamber for mating with the mating connector. The center pin having a terminating end extending from the back end. And an insulator formed in place in the pocket around the center pin to electrically isolate the center pin from the shell. The insulator maintaining a position of the center pin along the longitudinal axis.

Connector assembly with an insulator

An electrical connector and system for connecting to a terminal post. The electrical connector includes a housing body, a contact and a locking release member. The housing body includes a post receiving passage for receiving the terminal post therein. The contact is provided in the post receiving passage and is positioned about the circumference of the post receiving passage. The contact will make an electrical engagement with a terminal post inserted into the post receiving passage regardless of the orientation of the terminal post with respect to the contact. The electrical connector which prevents the improper mating of the connector to the post, prevents unwanted rotation of the connector, provides a visual indication that the proper connection is secured and provides a secondary lock to ensure that unwanted unmating of the connector does not occur.

Quick connect power connector system

A grounding connector includes a shell having a mating end and a mounting end. The shell defines a cavity open at the mating end configured to receive a mating component. The shell has a base at the mounting end having a plurality of contact channels open to the cavity. Grounding contacts are received in corresponding contact channels. The grounding contacts have mating ends and compliant portions opposite the mating ends. The mating ends are positioned in the cavity for mating with the mating component. The compliant portions are received in the contact channels to mechanically and electrically connect each of the grounding contacts to the shell and to each other through the shell.

Grounding connector having compliant grounding contacts

An electrical assembly includes a backshell having a coupling nut defining a cavity and a cable follower received in the cavity and extending rearward from the coupling nut. The cable follower has a plurality of rearward extending spring fingers extending to distal ends and being tapered inward to the distal ends to define a generally conical shaped cable channel configured to receive a cable. The spring fingers are deflectable and are spring biased against the cable in different radial directions to provide a clamping force against the cable and to substantially center the cable in the cable channel. The electrical assembly includes a retention feature coupled between the cable follower and the coupling nut allowing the coupling nut to be rotatably coupled to the cable follower such that the coupling nut is rotatable relative to the cable.

Electrical assembly having a backshell with a cable follower

A receptacle connector is provided for a wearable article. The receptacle connector includes a housing having a receptacle configured to receive a complementary plug connector therein. The housing is configured to be mounted to the wearable article. A printed circuit board is held by the housing. The printed circuit board includes mating contacts for mating with the plug connector. The printed circuit board includes mounting contacts that are configured to terminate conductors of a flat cable of the wearable article or an e-textile of the wearable article.

Receptacle connector for a wearable article

A flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) connector includes a housing having a first mating interface configured for mating with a first FPCB and a second mating interface configured for mating with a second FPCB. A plurality of jumper conductors are held by the housing. The jumper conductors have first mating ends at the first mating interface being configured for mating with the first FPCB and the jumper conductors having second mating ends at the second mating interface being configured for mating with the second FPCB. The first mating interface is configured to be mated to the first FPCB at any location along a length of the first FPCB including locations remote from an end of the first FPCB.

Flexible printed circuit board connector

An electrical connector includes a housing having a cavity. A wafer stack is received in the cavity. The wafer stack includes a plurality of electrical wafers arranged parallel to each other within the cavity. Each wafer includes a first edge and a second edge. Each wafer includes at least one trace between the first and second edges. The electrical connector includes a flex harness including a plurality of flexible printed circuit boards (FPCBs). The FPCBs are electrically connected to corresponding wafers.

Electrical connector having wafers

Configurable guide hardware is provided for aligning two associated connectors that are mounted on different circuit cards. The guide hardware includes a guide receptacle that is mounted to one of the circuit cards. The guide receptacle includes a housing that defines a channel and a keyway ring that is held in the channel. The guide receptacle is configured to receive a pin of a guide plug in the channel through a central opening of the keyway ring. The keyway ring includes a receptacle keying feature along an inner perimeter. The keyway ring is selectively positionable to locate the receptacle keying feature in multiple pre-defined angular orientations relative to the housing. The pin of the guide plug may also be selectively positionable in multiple pre-defined angular orientations.

Configurable guide hardware for connector systems

A wearable connector includes a housing having a base and a shroud that extends from the base. The shroud includes a tunnel having an open end and an interior surface. The open end of the tunnel is configured to receive a mating connector therein. The base is configured to be mounted to a wearable article. Terminals are held directly by the shroud such that mating segments of the terminals extend at least one of directly on or through the interior surface of the tunnel. The tunnel of the shroud is configured to receive the mating connector into the tunnel through the open end such that the mating segments of the terminals mate with mating terminals of the mating connector within the tunnel.

Electrical connector

A connector system includes a cavity configured to hold a connector module. The cartridge has a port opening to the cavity. The cartridge removably receives the connector module through the port. The connector system also includes an ejector mechanism. The ejector mechanism has a slider latch movable in a longitudinal direction relative to the cartridge. The slider latch has a profiled groove configured to cam therein. The slider latch has a linear gear. The ejector mechanism includes a rotatable handle having a circular gear configured to engage the linear gear to cause the slider latch to move as the rotatable handle is rotated between a closed position and an open position. The profiled groove engages the cam to secure the connector module to the connector assembly when the rotatable handle is in the closed position and unlock the connector module when in the open position.

Latch assemblies for connector systems

A grounding and retention member which includes a plate having openings positioned therein. First contact and retention projections extend from proximate edges of the plate. The first contact and retention projections cooperate with a shell of the connector to provide an electrical connection between the plate and the shell of the connector. Second contact and retention projections extend from proximate edges of at least one of the openings. The second contact and retention projections cooperate to retain contacts in contact receiving passageways of a connector and to provide an electrical connection between the contacts and the plate.

Grounding and retention member

A connector system includes a cartridge having at least one cavity configured to hold connector modules therein. The connector system also includes at least one slider latch housed in the cartridge. The at least one slider latch is movable in a longitudinal direction and has at least one groove configured to receive a cam of a corresponding connector module to secure the connector modules to the cartridge. The at least one slider latch has a biasing member operably coupled thereto. The biasing member biases the slider latch in a biasing direction. The biasing member forces the at least one slider latch to return to a latched position after the cam is received in the profiled groove. The connector system also includes a discharge mechanism configured to move a discharge slider.

An electrical connector is provided for terminating a plurality of electrical conductors. The electrical connector includes a terminal subassembly having terminals configured to be electrically connected to the electrical conductors. The terminal subassembly has an insulator holding the terminals. The terminal subassembly has a mating interface where mating surfaces of the terminals mate with a mating connector. The mating interface of the terminal subassembly is approximately flat. The electrical connector also includes a metal shell holding the terminal subassembly. The metal shell has the cross-sectional shape of an oval.

Electrical connector system having an insulator holding terminals

An electrical contact is provided for mating with a mating contact. The electrical contact includes a base extending a length along a central longitudinal axis, and an arm extending a length outward from the base along the central longitudinal of the base. The arm includes a first mating bump and a second mating bump. The first and second mating bumps have respective first and second mating surfaces. The arm is configured to engage the mating contact at each of the first and second mating surfaces to establish an electrical connection with the mating contact. The first mating surface of the first mating bump is spaced apart along the length of the arm from the second mating surface of the second mating bump.

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Dustin Carson Belack