Litton Systems, Inc.

Michael P Driscoll

Robert M Bradley

Stephen Vetter

Lee A Wolfel

Robert O Beadle

Michael N Perugini

Carmine Gugliotti

William R Keller

Charles A Toye, Jr

The present invention is directed to a high density electrical connector which can provide 80 or more twinax connections per linear inch in a 20 millimeter card slot. In a typical electronic system package, 20 millimeters is the spacing from center line to center line of the adjacent parallel daughtercards. Twinax cable is coaxial cable that contains two .inner conducting wires rather than one. The two inner conducting wires provide two physical channels. Coaxial cable is called 'coaxial' because it includes one physical channel that carries the signal surrounded (after a layer of insulation) by another concentric physical channel, both running along the same axis. The outer channel serves as ground.

High speed, high density interconnect system for differential and single-ended transmission systems

The invention relates to an electrical connector that can be used to electrically connect a daughtercard to a backplane.

Interconnection system

An interconnection system includes spacers arranged adjacent each other in a row, the spacers having cable sections disposed therein. Each cable section has at least one center conductor and an outer conductive shield. All of the cable sections have one end exposed on a first plane and a second end exposed on a second plane. Electrically conductive contacts are disposed within apertures in a pair of interposers so as to have one end making electrical contact with one of the cable sections and another end extending through its respective aperture in its respective interposer.

The present invention is directed to a high density electrical connector which can provide 80 or more twinax connections per linear inch in a 20 millimeter card slot. In a typical electronic system package, 20 millimeters is the spacing from center line to center line of the adjacent parallel daughtercards. Twinax cable is coaxial cable that contains two inner conducting wires rather than one. The two inner conducting wires provide two physical channels. Coaxial cable is called 'coaxial' because it includes one physical channel that carries the signal surrounded (after a layer of insulation) by another concentric physical channel, both running along the same axis. The outer channel serves as ground.

High speed, high density interconnect system for differential and single-ended transmission applications

An electrical cable connector is disclosed for connecting a plurality of electrical conductors to a printed circuit board. The cable connector includes a cable socket connector having a plurality of female insulation displacement contacts which can be mated with male signal-carrying pins contained in a pin shroud on a printed circuit board. The cable socket connector is comprised of a hood which retains two or more wafers. Each wafer contains a plurality of insulation displacement contacts. The cable socket connector may include a latch for securing the cable socket connector to the pin shroud and shielding to prevent extraneous signals from being transmitted into the circuits on the printed circuit board through the cable connector. The cable connector also includes an arrangement for keying the cable socket connector to the pin shroud to control the location of insertion of the cable socket connector into the pin shroud.

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Deep River, CT, United States of America

Michael P Driscoll