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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2001
J. Steve Lyford, Portland, OR (US);
Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
An adapter for a multi-channel, low input capacitance signal probe head has a housing with a cavity formed therein that receives one of a mating plug or receptacle portion of multi-channel, controlled impedance connector. The housing has probe head retention members formed in the sidewalls and alignment flanges disposed adjacent to the probe head retention members that are received in the signal probe head. The adapter includes a substrate having first and second arrays of contact pads formed on the respective top and bottom surfaces of the substrate. The first array of contact pads mate with electrically conductive elastomer signal contacts of the signal probe head and the second array of contact pads mate with the contact pads of the transmission lines of the plug or receptacle. Screws extend through bores in the signal probe head and engage threaded pins in the retention members.