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Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2022

Filed:

May. 18, 2020
Applicant:

Te Connectivity Services Gmbh, Schaffhausen, CH;

Inventors:

Steven David Dunwoody, Middletown, PA (US);

Alex Michael Sharf, Harrisburg, PA (US);

Richard James Long, Columbia, PA (US);

Assignee:

TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbH, Schaffhausen, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 13/6582 (2011.01); H01R 13/52 (2006.01); H01R 13/627 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 13/6582 (2013.01); H01R 13/5219 (2013.01); H01R 13/6273 (2013.01);
Abstract

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.


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