Extender module for modular connector

US11721928B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Amphenol Corporation · US

Inventors

• Allan Astbury · Milford, US
• John Robert Dunham · Windham, US
• Marc B. Cartier, Jr. · Dover, US
• Mark W. Gailus · Concord, US
• Daniel B. Provencher · Weare, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 28, 2020
• Grant date: Aug 8, 2023
• Expiry date: Aug 17, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A modular electrical connector with modular components suitable for assembly into a right angle connector may also be used in forming an orthogonal connector or connector in other desired configurations. The connector modules may be configured through the user of extender modules. Those connector modules may be held together as a right angle connector with a front housing portion, which, in some embodiments, may be shaped differently depending on whether the connector modules are used to form a right angle connector or an orthogonal connector. When designed to form an orthogonal connector, the extender modules may interlock into subarrays, which may be held to other connector components through the use of an extender shell. The mating contact portions on the extender modules may be such that a right angle connector, similarly made with connector modules, may directly mate with the orthogonal connector.