High speed electrical connector

US9257778B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FCI Americas Technology LLC · US

Inventors

• Jonathan E. Buck · Hershey, US
• Stuart C. Stoner · Easton, US
• Steven E. Minich · York, US
• Douglas M. Johnescu · York, US
• Stephen B. Smith · Livonia, US
• Arkady Y. Zerebilov · Lancaster, US
• Deborah A. Ingram · Easton, US
• Hung-Wei Lord · Harrisburg, US
• Robert Douglas Fulton · Mount Wolf, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 15, 2013
• Grant date: Feb 9, 2016
• Expiry date: Oct 5, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01R12/737
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Electrical connector assemblies are provided that include electrical connectors having electrical contacts that have receptacle mating ends are provided. The connector housings of the provided electrical connectors include alignment members that are capable of performing staged alignment of components of the electrical connector assemblies. The provided electrical connector assemblies and the electrical connectors provided therein are capable of operating at a data transfer rate of forty gigabits per second with worst case multi-active cross talk that does not exceed a range of about two percent to about four percent.