Fci Americas Technology Inc.

Fci Usa, Inc.

Fci, Inc.

Fci Asia Pte. Ltd.

Steven E Minich

Douglas Michael Johnescu

Stephen B Smith

Jonathan Earl Buck

Stuart Craig Stoner

Gregory A Hull

Mark R Gray

Mark Edwin Lauermann

Charles Dudley Copper

Jan De Geest

Stefaan Hendrik Jozef Sercu

Christopher J Kolivoski

Jason John Ellison

William Tanis

Scott Martin

Joseph Blair Shuey

Timothy A Lemke

Timothy W Houtz

Lewis Robin Johnson

Arkady Y Zerebilov

Clifford L Winings

Donald K Harper

Wilfred James Swain

Alan Raistrick

Hung-Wei Lord

Deborah A Ingram

Danny L C Morlion

Dean E Geibel

Scott Carbaugh

Robert Douglas Fulton

Hung Viet Ngo

John David Dodds

James J David

James R Volstorf

James S Staron

Gary J Oleynick

James Mills

Stefaan Hendrik Josef Sercu

Gerald Wolford

James J Muha

Derek L Brickner

Jonathan E Buck, Iii

Scott A Kleinle

Vittal Balasubramanian

Mark A Grey

Stefaan H Sercu

Electrical connectors for very high speed signals, including signals at or above 112 Gbps. Effectiveness of shielding along the signal paths through the mating electrical connectors may be enhanced through the use of one or more techniques, including enabling two-sided shielding, connections between shield members and between shield members and grounded structures of printed circuit boards to which the connectors are mounted, and selective positioning of lossy material. Such techniques may be simply and reliably implemented in high density connector using one or more techniques. An electrical connector may include core members held by a housing together with leadframe assemblies attached to the core members. The core members may include features that would be difficult to mold in a housing and may include both shields and lossy materials in locations that would be difficult to incorporate in a leadframe assembly.

High speed connector

A direct mate orthogonal connector for a high density of high speed signals. The connector may include right angle leadframe assemblies with signal conductive elements and ground shields held by a leadframe housing. High frequency performance may be achieved with members on the leadframe that transfer force between a connector housing, holding the leadframe assemblies, and a portion of the leadframe housing holding the signal conductive elements and the shields near their mounting ends. Core members may be inserted into the housing and mating ends of the conductive elements of ground shields may be adjacent the core members, enabling electrical and mechanical performance of the mating interface to be defined by the core members. The core members may incorporate insulative and lossy features that may be complex to form as part of the connector housing but may be readily formed as part of a separate core member.

High speed, high density direct mate orthogonal connector

Electrical connectors for very high speed signals, including signals at frequencies at or above 112 GHz, with high density. Such connectors may be formed with fine features molded into portions of the connector housing to support closely spaced signal conductors. The signal conducts may nonetheless be accurately positioned, which leads to uniform impedance and other electrical characteristics that enable high frequency operation through the use of skeletal members that restrain bowing and twisting of housing components that position, directly or indirectly, the signal conductors. The skeletal members may be simply incorporated into the housing components by stamping a metal skeleton from a metal sheet in conjunction with one or more carrier strips. The housing component may be overmolded around the skeleton and then severed from the carrier strips.

High speed, high density connector

A connector with contact tails configured to provide a connector footprint enabling a low cost printed circuit board. The contact tails are positioned to leave routing channels, parallel to an edge of a printed circuit board, within the connector footprint. The routing channels may enable routing of high speed signal traces out of the connector footprint on a small number of routing layers. In a connector with 16 columns, each with 8 pairs of signal traces, two routing layers may be adequate to route traces connecting all of the signal vias in the connector footprint to components at the interior of the printed circuit board.

Connectors for low cost, high speed printed circuit boards

A direct mate orthogonal electrical connector assembly includes first and second electrical connectors configured to be mated to respective first and second substrates such that the second substrate is perpendicular to the first substrate.

Orthogonal electrical connector assembly

In accordance with one embodiment, first and second electrical connectors are configured as vertical electrical connectors that are configured to mate to each other so as to define a right angle electrical connector assembly. Ground shields and electrical contacts of various embodiments are also disclosed.

Electrical connector assembly

A separator is configured to separate first and second printed circuit boards that are in electrical communication with each other through first and second pluralities of electrical connectors that are mounted to the first and second substrates, respectively, and mated to each other.

Separator for electrical assembly

Right-angle electrical connector

Electrical connector assemblies are provided that include electrical connectors having electrical contacts that have receptacle mating ends are provided. The connector housings of the provided electrical connectors include alignment members that are capable of performing staged alignment of components of the electrical connector assemblies. The provided electrical connector assemblies and the electrical connectors provided therein are capable of operating at a data transfer rate of forty gigabits per second with worst case multi-active cross talk that does not exceed a range of about two percent to about four percent.

High speed electrical connector

Vertical electrical connector

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Steven E Minich