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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2003
Koenraad F. Van Schuylenbergh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Armin R. Völkel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas H. Distefano, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Michel A. Rosa, San Jose, CA (US);
David K. Fork, Los Altos, CA (US);
Eugene M. Chow, Stanford, CA (US);
Meng H. Lean, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Koenraad F. Van Schuylenbergh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Armin R. Völkel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas H. DiStefano, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Michel A. Rosa, San Jose, CA (US);
David K. Fork, Los Altos, CA (US);
Eugene M. Chow, Stanford, CA (US);
Meng H. Lean, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A data transmission interconnect assembly (e.g., a router) capable of transmission speeds in excess of 40 Gbps in which a line-card is detachably coupled to a backplane using flexible flat cables that are bent to provide a continuous, smooth curve between the connected boards, and connected by a connection apparatus that employs cable-to-cable interface members that are transparent to the transmitted signal waves. Microspring contact structures are formed on the cables, or on a contact structure pressed against the cables, to provide interface arrangements that are smaller than a wavelength of the transmitted signal. A connector apparatus uses a cam mechanism to align the cables, and then to press a contact structure, having micro spring interface members formed thereon, against the cables. An alterative contact structure uses anisotropic conductive film.