Tyco Electronics Corporation

Troy Lyndon Blazek

Eric David Briant

Matthew Ryan Schmitt

John Allen Hackman

In one embodiment, an electrical connector is disclosed. The electrical connector comprises a shell having a mating end and a cable end. The shell has a cavity with at least one conductor therein. The at least one conductor is arranged at the mating end for termination to a mating connector. The shell has a cable extending from the cavity through the cable end being electrically connected to the at least one conductor. The electrical connector also includes a shielding insert received proximate to the cable end. The shielding insert circumferentially surrounds the cable and is configured to block transmission of electromagnetic radiation through the cable end.

Cable connector having a shielding insert

A pluggable module is provided for being pluggably received within a receptacle assembly. The pluggable module includes a circuit board configured to be terminated to a cable, and a housing extending a length from a plug end to a cable end. The housing includes complementary first and second shells that are mated together along a mating axis such that the first and second shells define an interior chamber of the housing. The circuit board is held within the interior chamber such that the circuit board is exposed at the plug end. The first and second shells includes respective first and second openings that extend into the respective first and second shells along respective first and second central axes that each extend non-parallel to the mating axis. The first and second openings are at least partially aligned. A spring pin extends within the first and second openings to hold the first and second shells together. A first segment of the spring pin extends within the first opening of the first shell and a second segment of the spring pin extends within the second opening of the second shell.

Pluggable module

Electrical device including a circuit board having signal contacts and at least one ground contact along a surface of the circuit board. The electrical device also includes a communication cable having a differential pair of signal conductors, a shield layer that surrounds the signal conductors, and a cable jacket that surrounds the shield layer. Each of the signal conductors has a wire-terminating end that is engaged to a corresponding signal contact of the circuit board. The cable jacket has an access opening therethrough that exposes a portion of the shield layer. The electrical device also includes a ground-terminating component that is electrically coupled to the shield layer through the access opening and electrically coupled to the at least one ground contact.

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Cottage Grove, MN, United States of America

Troy Lyndon Blazek