Tyco Electronics Corporation

Te Connectivity Corporation

Te Connectivity Services Gmbh

Te Connectivity Solutions Gmbh

Tyco Electronics (shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Te Connectivity Belgium Bvba

Te Electronics Svenska Ab

Richard James Long

Steven David Dunwoody

Alex Michael Sharf

Michael Warren Fogg

Hongqiang Han

Michael John Phillips

Eric David Briant

Wenyu Liu

Matthew Ryan Schmitt

Charles Jameson Valentine

Jacob Rita

Randall Robert Henry

Kevin Edward Weidner

Robert Paul Nichols

Rickard Valentin Barrefelt

James Charles Shiffler

Jeffrey Stewart Simpson

Julia Anne Lachman

Evan Charles Wickes

Chenxi Wang

Hongwen Yang

Lieven Decrock

Dustin Rowe

Youwei Pan

David A Dedonato

Jianzhong Pan

Alexander Michael Sharf

Jingtao Zhu

Yublia May

Kylie Elizabeth Hostrander

Magnus Andersson

Freddy R Galindo Palomino

A receptacle cage includes cage walls including exterior walls and an interior wall. The exterior walls form a cavity and include a top wall, a bottom wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, and a rear wall. The interior wall is received in the cavity and divides the cavity into a first module channel at a first side of the interior wall and a second module channel at a second side of the interior wall. The interior wall includes a front edge, a rear edge, an upper edge, and a lower edge. The upper edge is joined to the top wall along a majority of the upper edge. The lower edge is joined to the bottom wall along a majority of the lower edge. The rear edge is joined to the rear wall along a majority of the rear edge. The exterior walls provide external shielding for the first and second module channels. The interior wall provides shielding between the first and second module channels.

Receptacle cage

A receptacle cage includes conductive cage walls forming a cavity defining a module channel configured to receive a pluggable module. The cage walls include an upper wall above the module channel and a lower wall below the module channel. The cage walls include a port at a front of the receptacle cage providing access to the module channel. The receptacle cage includes an upper EMI absorber extending along the upper wall above the module channel and a lower EMI absorber extending along the lower wall below the module channel.

Receptacle cage having absorber

A connector housing assembly comprises a housing defining an accommodation space having a left side wall and a right side wall opposite to each other in a transverse direction of the housing. A partition member is inserted into the accommodation space for dividing the accommodation space into an upper insertion chamber and a lower insertion chamber. A shielding member is installed within the partition member and includes elastic contacts extending from lateral sides of the partition member for pressing on the left and right side walls of the accommodation space.

Connector housing assembly

A receptacle connector assembly includes a receptacle cage including cage walls including a top wall and forming a module channel configured to receive a pluggable module. The top wall includes an opening open to the pluggable module. The receptacle connector assembly includes an EMI gasket coupled to the top wall at the opening. The EMI gasket provides electrical shielding at the opening. The EMI gasket has a base including a mounting surface coupled to the top wall of the receptacle cage. The EMI gasket has a plurality of mating interfaces. The receptacle connector assembly includes a heat sink coupled to the receptacle cage having a heat sink base with a thermal interface located in the module channel and configured to engage the pluggable module to dissipate heat from the pluggable module. The base engages the mating interfaces of the EMI gasket to electrically connect the heat sink to the EMI gasket.

Electrical shielding for a receptacle connector assembly

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

A shielding housing includes a receptacle configured to receive an electrical connector assembly including an electrical connector and a mating connector connected to the electrical connector. The receptacle is formed as a straight passage with an opening at each end of the straight passage. Either end of the straight passage receives one of the electrical connector and the mating connector along a mating axis coaxial with the straight passage.

Shielding housing for a detachable fully shielded internal cable assembly

A receptacle cage includes cage walls forming a module channel that is configured to receive a pluggable module. The cage walls extend between a front end and a rear end of the receptacle cage. At least one of the cage walls is a latch wall including a latching feature configured to engage a latch of the pluggable module to retain the pluggable module in the module channel. The receptacle cage includes a first slider pressure tab. The first slider pressure tab extends from the latch wall into the module channel. The first slider pressure tab is configured to engage a slider arm of the latch to press the slider arm inward toward a pluggable module body of the pluggable module.

EMI shielding for a receptacle cage

A receptacle cage assembly includes a receptacle cage having first and second side walls extending from a top wall at first and second corners. A gasket has EMI springs electrically connected to the receptacle cage and a panel in a panel opening including top EMI springs and first and second side EMI springs. A first corner EMI spring is located outward of the first corner of the receptacle cage to engage the panel at a first corner of the panel opening. A second corner EMI spring is located outward of the second corner of the receptacle cage to engage the panel at a second corner of the panel opening.

Corner EMI springs for a receptacle cage

A electrical connector includes an inner conductor having a first mating end configured to be coupled to an electrical component and a second mating end and an outer conductor having a first mating end configured to be coupled to the electrical component and a second mating end. The outer conductor has a bore receiving the inner conductor. The inner conductor is coaxial with the outer conductor. A shielding gasket is separate and discrete from the outer conductor and coupled to the first mating end of the outer conductor. The shielding gasket has an outer surface facing the electrical component and configured to interface with the electrical component. The shielding gasket provides perimeter shielding around the first mating end of the inner conductor.

Electrical connector with shielding gasket

A cage includes a housing and a partition assembly mounted in the housing and separating an inner space of the housing into an upper space and a lower space. The partition assembly includes a first support plate and a second support plate arranged horizontally, and at least a pair of support frames disposed between the first support plate and the second support plate to separate the first support plate from the second support plate by a predetermined height. The support frames have a plurality of through holes. The support frames are formed by bending a front end of one of the first support plate and the second support plate.

Cage, electrical equipment and partition assembly

A receptacle cage includes cage walls extending between a front end and a rear end including a top wall and side walls forming a module channel receiving a pluggable module. The receptacle cage includes a gasket at the front end having EMI springs electrically connected to the cage walls. Each EMI spring has a deflectable portion between a base and a distal end. The distal end is split with a first end beam and a second end beam at the distal end separated by a gap. The deflectable portion is spaced apart from the cage wall and is deflectable toward the cage wall. Each EMI spring has first and second side edges between the base and the distal end. The EMI springs are arranged side-by-side without gaps between adjacent EMI springs.

Gasket for receptacle cage

A receptacle connector assembly includes a receptacle cage having first and second side walls extending from a top wall to form a module channel configured to receive a pluggable module. The top wall is non-planar and has a shroud extending therefrom forming a cage polarization feature. The shroud has a first shroud side wall, a second shroud side wall and a shroud top wall forming a polarization feature channel configured to receive a polarization feature of the pluggable module.

Polarization feature for a receptacle cage

A pluggable module includes a pluggable body extending between a front end and a mating end receivable in a module cavity of a receptacle assembly to mate with a communication connector. The pluggable body has a top, a bottom, a first side wall and a second side wall between the top and the bottom and has an upper shell defining the top and a lower shell defining the bottom coupled together at a seam. A seam cover is coupled to the pluggable body at the first side wall covering the seam between the upper shell and the lower shell on the first side wall. The seam cover is conductive and provides EMI shielding at the seam for a communication circuit board held in the pluggable body.

Pluggable module having a seam cover

A connector is provided and includes a housing with an electronic module receiving passageway positioned therein. The housing includes a first housing and a second housing. The first housing includes a pair of first sidewalls positioned opposite from each other and a pair of partitions forming a slot extending along each of the pair of first sidewalls. The second housing includes a pair of second sidewalls positioned opposite one another, an extension disposed on each the pair of second sidewalls and corresponding with the slot, and a plurality of ribs extending outward from the extension and corresponding with inner surface of the pair of partitions.

Connector housing and connector

Receptacle assembly includes a receptacle cage having an interior cavity forming first and second module passages. The first and second module passages are configured to receive respective pluggable modules through first and second port openings, respectively, in a loading direction that is parallel to a Z-axis. The receptacle assembly also includes a cage cover positioned at the front end between the first and second port openings. The cage cover includes first and second module fingers. The cage cover also including a ground tab that engages an inner surface of the receptacle cage. The first and second module fingers extend lengthwise in the loading direction. The ground tab extends lengthwise along a Y-axis that is perpendicular to the Z-axis.

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Richard James Long