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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2019
Applicant:
Fci Usa Llc, Etters, PA (US);
Inventor:
Steven E. Minich, York, PA (US);
Assignee:
FCI USA LLC, Etters, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 12/72 (2011.01); H05K 1/11 (2006.01); H05K 1/18 (2006.01); H05K 1/02 (2006.01); H01R 12/73 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 12/724 (2013.01); H01R 12/737 (2013.01); H05K 1/0243 (2013.01); H05K 1/115 (2013.01); H05K 1/184 (2013.01); H05K 2201/09227 (2013.01); H05K 2201/09609 (2013.01); H05K 2201/09636 (2013.01); H05K 2201/10189 (2013.01);
Abstract
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.