Tyco Electronics Corporation

Te Connectivity Corporation

Te Connectivity Services Gmbh

Te Connectivity Solutions Gmbh

Tyco Electronics (shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Eric David Briant

Michael John Phillips

Bruce Allen Champion

Charles Jameson Valentine

Michael David Herring

James Charles Shiffler

Nikhil Shankar

Scott Anthony Shuey

Christopher William Blackburn

Craig William Clewell

Randall Robert Henry

Alex Michael Sharf

Michael Warren Fogg

Christopher David Ritter

Richard James Long

Leo Joseph Graham

Michael Joseph Tryson

Daniel Lee Gorenc

John Jacob O'Keefe, Ii

Alan Weir Bucher

David Bruce Sarraf

Jason M'Cheyne Reisinger

David Stanley Szczesny

Brandon Michael Matthews

Linda Ellen Shields

John Eugene Westman

Adrian Mikolajczak

Douglas Wade Glover

Arash Behziz

Belgie B McClelland, Ii

Brian Keith McMaster, Jr

Honghao Wu

Jian Lu

Robert Harrison Wertz, Jr

Dean Marlin Harmon, Iii

Lucas Arthur Benson

Emilio Cuesta

Jacob Rita

Troy Lyndon Blazek

Douglas M Thomas

Melissa Anne Harden

Bryon Todd Eppley

Jodi Rae Peterson

James Charles Schiffler

Zhaohai Xue

Lucas A Benson

An optical receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing having housing walls defining a contact cavity and an optical cavity. The receptacle housing includes an upper wall and a lower wall at a front of the receptacle housing defining a card slot receiving a mating edge of an optical module circuit board of a pluggable optical generator module. The upper wall includes an upper wall opening above the card slot. A contact assembly having receptacle contacts is received in the contact cavity to supply power to the pluggable optical generator module to operate a light source of the pluggable optical generator module. A receive optical connector is coupled to the receptacle housing above the upper wall opening and mated with a supply optical connector of the pluggable optical generator module to receive optical signals from the supply optical connector.

Optical receptacle connector for an optical communication system

An optical receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing defining a contact cavity, an optical cavity, and a card slot at a front of the receptacle housing configured to receive an edge of an optical module circuit board. A contact assembly having receptacle contacts is received in the contact cavity and extend into the card slot to supply power to the pluggable optical generator module to operate a light source. The optical receptacle connector includes a receive optical connector coupled to the receptacle housing having a ferrule holding at least one optical fiber configured to be mated with a supply optical connector of the pluggable optical generator module to receive optical signals from the supply optical connector.

A communication system having a circuit board with an airflow opening includes a receptacle cage configured to be mounted to the circuit board adjacent a communication connector. The receptacle cage has walls including a front wall, a rear wall and side walls defining a cavity. A module channel is defined in the cavity configured to receive a pluggable module. The module channel has a module port at the front wall that receives the pluggable module. An airflow channel is defined by at least one of the walls of the receptacle cage located between the module channel and the circuit board. The airflow channel is configured to be in flow communication with the airflow opening in the circuit board for cooling the pluggable module in the module channel. The airflow channel has an airflow port at the front wall.

Communication system having a receptacle cage with an electrical connector

A pluggable module includes a pluggable body having an upper shell at the top and a lower shell at the bottom that define an interior chamber. The upper shell includes side walls extending to the top and an upper wall extending between the side walls. The upper shell includes an airflow channel and EMI prevention fins having EMI channels therebetween in flow communication with the airflow channel. The upper wall along the airflow channel is at a first depth from the top and the upper wall along the EMI channels is at a second depth deeper than the first depth.

Pluggable module having EMI prevention fins in airflow channel

An electrical connector that includes a housing with an interior cavity configured to receive a card. Electrical contacts are secured across a wall of the housing within the interior cavity and are configured to matingly receive corresponding electrical contacts of the card. The plurality of electrical contacts secured across the wall of the housing are the only electrical contacts of the electrical connector. Each of the plurality of electrical contacts includes a mating interface and the mating interface of each of the plurality of electrical contacts is co-planer. Additionally, the housing includes a card slot opening and each of the plurality of electrical contacts are arranged on one side of the card slot opening.

Low profile electrical connector

A communication system includes a plug module having a plug housing and a plug latch and a receptacle module having a receptacle housing and a receptacle latch. The receptacle module includes a receptacle connector with a card slot receiving a plug module circuit board. The receptacle connector includes cables terminated to contacts and extending from the receptacle connector. A receptacle cage includes a front cage interface receiving the plug module and a rear cage interface receiving the receptacle module. The front cage interface matches the rear cage interface including a front latching feature and a rear latching feature interfacing with the plug and receptacle latches.

Receptacle module and receptacle cage for a communication system

A communication system includes a host circuit board and an interposer assembly coupled to the host circuit board having an interposer substrate including an host circuit board contacts at a lower surface and module contacts at an upper surface. The communication system includes an optical pluggable module having a mating interface along a bottom of the optical pluggable module facing the interposer assembly. The optical pluggable module includes a module substrate and optical engines coupled to the module substrate with optical fiber cables extending from the optical engines to the cable end. The module substrate has module substrate contacts at a lower surface of the module substrate being electrically connected to corresponding module contacts of the interposer assembly at the upper surface of the interposer substrate.

Optical pluggable module for a communication system

A stacked receptacle connector assembly includes a receptacle cage configured to be mounted to a circuit board, a lower communication connector assembly received in the receptacle cage, and an upper communication connector assembly stacked in the receptacle cage above the lower communication connector assembly. The receptacle cage has a divider between an upper and lower module channels receiving upper and lower pluggable modules. The lower communication connector assembly includes a lower communication connector. The upper communication connector assembly includes a paddle card, an upper communication connector mounted to the paddle card, and a cable assembly having cables electrically connected to the paddle card and extending from the paddle card.

Stacked receptacle connector assembly

A receptacle connector assembly includes a receptacle cage having walls defining a cavity and a divider in the cavity including upper and lower panels separated by a gap and separating the cavity into upper and lower module channels receiving corresponding pluggable modules. The receptacle connector assembly includes a communication connector in the cavity having a housing holding upper and lower contact modules. The receptacle connector assembly includes a light pipe assembly including a first light pipe member coupled to the communication connector and a second light pipe member coupled to the divider. The second light pipe member receives light from the first light pipe member at a separable mating interface.

Light pipe assembly for a receptacle assembly

A communication system includes a host circuit board, a receptacle assembly mounted to the host circuit board having a cage member defining a module cavity, and a pluggable module having a pluggable body loaded into the module cavity. The pluggable body has a mating interface along a bottom of the pluggable body facing the host circuit board. The pluggable module has a cable assembly having a cable and a cable connector at an end of the cable including signal contacts held by a contact holder that are terminated to signal conductors of the cable. The signal contacts have deflectable spring beams and mating interfaces along the deflectable spring beams exposed at the mating interface of the pluggable body to engage and directly mate with corresponding signal pads of the host circuit board.

Direct mate pluggable module for a communication system

A communication system includes a host circuit board and an interposer assembly coupled to the host circuit board having an interposer substrate including an upper surface and a lower surface. The interposer assembly has host circuit board contacts electrically connected to contact pads of the host circuit board and cable assembly contacts coupled to a pluggable module. The pluggable module includes a mating interface along a bottom of the pluggable module facing the interposer assembly. The pluggable module includes a cable assembly having a cable at the cable end. The cable has a signal conductor and a ground conductor being electrically connected to corresponding cable assembly contacts of the interposer assembly at the upper surface of the interposer substrate.

Pluggable module for a communication system

A card edge connector includes a contact assembly received in a cavity of a housing having a card slot in a shroud configured to receive a card edge of a module circuit board of a pluggable module. The contact assembly has upper and lower contacts having mating ends. The card edge connector includes upper biasing members at a top wall of the shroud associated with corresponding upper contacts each having an outer biasing surface engaging the pluggable module when mated with the card edge connector and having an inner biasing surface engaging the contact assembly proximate to the corresponding upper contact. The upper biasing member is movable from a released position to a compressed position. The upper biasing member moves the upper contact from an unmated position to a mated position as the upper biasing member is moved from the released position to the compressed position.

Card edge connector having improved mating interface

A connector assembly includes a cage member having a plurality of walls defining a module cavity for a pluggable module. The walls include a top wall, a bottom wall and side walls extending between the top and bottom walls. The side walls extend to a bottom edge at the bottom wall and include mounting pins extending from the bottom edge that each have a press-fit portion configured to be press fit in a plated via of a circuit board. The bottom wall has a generally planar bottom surface facing the circuit board and a generally planar top surface facing the module cavity. The bottom wall includes a locating feature extending below the bottom surface and having a datum surface configured to engage the circuit board. The datum surface is a predetermined distance from the top surface to set a position of the top surface relative to the circuit board.

Receptacle cage member having locating features

An electrical connector module assembly is provided and includes a first shell and a second shell configured to mate together with the first shell along an interface that extends along a portion of the shells. The first and second shells form a cavity therebetween that extends along the length of the shells. The cavity is configured to hold an electrical component therein. The module assembly also includes a plurality of shielding elements positioned along the portion of the shells. The shielding elements are configured to form a seal along the interface that shields the electrical component from electromagnetic interference.

Electrical connector module assembly with shielding elements

A connector assembly includes a cage member having a plurality of walls defining first and second module cavities configured to receive corresponding pluggable modules therein. The module cavities are separated by a separator wall. The connector assembly includes a separator spring plate along the separator wall. The separator spring plate has a base section coplanar with the separator wall along a separator wall plane. The separator spring plate has first separator spring beams extending out of the separator wall plane to a first side of the separator wall plane into the first module cavity to couple to the pluggable module received therein and second separator spring beams extending out of the separator wall plane to a second side of the separator wall plane into the second module cavity to electrically couple to the pluggable module received therein.

EMI shielding for pluggable modules and connector assemblies

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