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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2010
David L. Brunker, Naperville, IL (US);
Timothy R. Gregori, Lockport, IL (US);
David E. Dunham, Aurora, IL (US);
Jason E. Squire, Batavia, IL (US);
Kevin O'connor, Lisle, IL (US);
Joseph D. Comerci, Elmhurst, IL (US);
David L. Brunker, Naperville, IL (US);
Timothy R. Gregori, Lockport, IL (US);
David E. Dunham, Aurora, IL (US);
Jason E. Squire, Batavia, IL (US);
Kevin O'Connor, Lisle, IL (US);
Joseph D. Comerci, Elmhurst, IL (US);
Molex Incorporated, Lisle, IL (US);
Abstract
A connector includes a housing with a set of broad-side coupled terminals configured to engage a pair of signal traces on a first panel and a second panel and transfer signals between the signal traces on the first and second panels. The connector may be slid onto the edges and then fastened to one or both of the panels with a locking feature. Multiple signal pairs may be included in the connector and may be electrically separated. The design of the connector helps facilitate high-speed data communication per signal pair with a return loss performance that does not exceed at predetermined level. Certain configurations of the connector may be used for co-planar configurations. Certain configurations of the connector may couple together panels of different thicknesses.