Te Connectivity Solutions Gmbh

The Connectivity Solutions Gmbh

Michael Streckewald

Chad William Morgan

Justin Dennis Pickel

David Allison Trout

Timothy Robert Minnick

John Joseph Consoli

Douglas Edward Shirk

Julia Anne Lachman

Jeffrey Byron McClinton

Margaret Mahoney Fernandes

Nitish Balakrishnan

Zachary Galbraith

Dustin Grant Rowe

Dean Marlin Harmon, Iii

Linda Ellen Shields

A wafer assembly includes a leadframe having signal contacts and cables with signal conductors terminated to the corresponding signal contacts. Each cable includes a cable shield providing shielding for the signal conductors. The wafer assembly includes a wafer body holding the signal contacts. The wafer assembly includes first and second ground frames coupled to the first and second sides of the wafer body to provide electrical shielding for the leadframe. The ground frames include ground shields providing shielding for mating ends of the corresponding signal contacts. The ground frames includes cable covers coupled to the corresponding cable shields.

Wafer assembly for electrical connector assemblies

An electrical connector includes a conductive housing having a mating end and a mounting end mounted to a circuit board. The conductive housing provides electrical shielding around pockets and includes ground pads at the mounting end configured to be terminated to the circuit board. The electrical connector includes contact assemblies held by the conductive housing each having a contact holder holding at least one contact. The contact holder is received in the corresponding pocket of the conductive housing to position the at least one contact relative to the conductive housing. Each contact includes a mating end and a terminating end coupled to a signal pad of the circuit board. The conductive housing provides circumferential shielding around each contact assembly between the contact holder and the circuit board.

High speed electrical connector for communication system

An electrical connector assembly includes a housing having a mating interface configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector assembly. Wafer assemblies are received in a cavity of the housing arranged in a wafer stack. Each wafer assembly includes a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, cables coupled to the leadframe, a ground frames coupled to the wafer body to provide electrical shielding for the leadframe, and ferrules surrounding the ends of the cables and electrically connected to the ground frames. Each ferrule has a solder layer along an interior of the ferrule coupled to a cable shield. Each ferrule includes shield connecting elements terminated to the ground frames to electrically connect the ferrule to the ground frames.

Electrical shielding for wafer assembly of electrical connector assembly

A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board and an electrical connector having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. The connector housing has a mating end configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector in a mating direction. The electrical connector has cables terminated to the contacts and extending from a cable end. A connector mount is used to locate the electrical connector relative to the circuit board. A bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board. A biasing member is coupled to the bracket and the mounting feature and is compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board.

Circuit board assembly for a communication system

An electrical connector assembly includes a housing having a mating interface configured to be mated with a hermaphroditic mating electrical connector assembly. The housing includes an electrically conductive commoning member having contact openings. Wafer assemblies are coupled to the housing each having a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, and a ground frame providing electrical shielding for the leadframe. The signal contacts are terminated to cables. The ground shields are electrically connected to the commoning member. The mating ends of the signal contacts and the ground shields form a hermaphroditic mating interface for mating with the hermaphroditic mating electrical connector assembly.

Direct plug hermaphroditic electrical connector assemblies

A circuit board assembly includes an electrical connector mounted to a circuit board having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. A connector mount having a bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board proximate to the mating edge. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount to move relative to the circuit board during mating with the mating electrical connector. The connector mount has a biasing member compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount in a confined envelope in at least one floating direction perpendicular to the mating direction.

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