公开(公告)号：US11177599B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-16

申请号：US16739950

申请日：2020-01-10

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： Michael James Horning ,  Howard Wallace Andrews, Jr. ,  Brian Patrick Costello ,  David Patrick Orris

IPC: H01R13/11 ,  H01R13/502 ,  H01R13/426

Abstract: A power connector includes a housing having a mating slot at a front having terminal channels holding power terminals between the slot and the corresponding side of the housing. Each power terminal includes a plate extending from the slot through a rear of the housing to an exterior of the housing for termination to a corresponding power element. The power terminal has a contact array of contacts discrete from and coupled to the plate. Each contact has a plate interface electrically coupled to the plate and a bus bar interface configured to be electrically coupled to a corresponding rail of the bus bar. The contacts are arranged along a corresponding side of the slot for interfacing with the bus bar.

公开(公告)号：US20200243997A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-30

申请号：US16739950

申请日：2020-01-10

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： Michael James Horning ,  Howard Wallace Andrews, JR. ,  Brian Patrick Costello ,  David Patrick Orris

IPC: H01R13/11 ,  H01R13/426 ,  H01R13/502

Abstract: A power connector includes a housing having a mating slot at a front having terminal channels holding power terminals between the slot and the corresponding side of the housing. Each power terminal includes a plate extending from the slot through a rear of the housing to an exterior of the housing for termination to a corresponding power element. The power terminal has a contact array of contacts discrete from and coupled to the plate. Each contact has a plate interface electrically coupled to the plate and a bus bar interface configured to be electrically coupled to a corresponding rail of the bus bar. The contacts are arranged along a corresponding side of the slot for interfacing with the bus bar.

公开(公告)号：US20200170139A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-28

申请号：US16668695

申请日：2019-10-30

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： Michael James Horning

IPC: H05K7/14 ,  H05K7/18

Abstract: A power connector includes a housing holding first and second power contacts. The housing has first and second rails defining a slot receiving a power rail. The housing has an upper contact channel in an upper wall and a lower contact channel in a lower wall receiving the power contacts. The power contacts each have a base and deflectable spring beams extending into the slot and being exposed at the slot for slidable electrical connection to a first power rail contact of the power rail on an upper surface the power rail and a second power rail contact of the power rail on a lower surface the power rail.

公开(公告)号：US10177483B1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-08

申请号：US15889646

申请日：2018-02-06

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： Michael James Horning ,  Matthew Jeffrey Sypolt

IPC: H01R13/625 ,  H01R13/502 ,  H01R12/73 ,  H01R13/52 ,  H01R13/6473 ,  H01R13/514

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a module stack, a front housing, and a spring member. The module stack includes multiple contact modules disposed side by side. The module stack includes multiple signal contacts that project beyond a front side thereof. The front housing is mechanically coupled to the module stack at the front side and surrounds the signal contacts. The front housing defines cavities that receive mating contacts of a mating connector to engage the signal contacts. The front housing is movable relative to the module stack along a longitudinal axis of the electrical connector assembly between a retracted position and an extended position. The spring member is held between the module stack and the front housing. The spring member engages the module stack and the front housing to bias the front housing towards the extended position.

公开(公告)号：US10939576B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-02

申请号：US16668695

申请日：2019-10-30

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： Michael James Horning

IPC: H01R25/14 ,  H05K7/14 ,  H05K7/18

Abstract: A power connector includes a housing holding first and second power contacts. The housing has first and second rails defining a slot receiving a power rail. The housing has an upper contact channel in an upper wall and a lower contact channel in a lower wall receiving the power contacts. The power contacts each have a base and deflectable spring beams extending into the slot and being exposed at the slot for slidable electrical connection to a first power rail contact of the power rail on an upper surface the power rail and a second power rail contact of the power rail on a lower surface the power rail.

公开(公告)号：US20190097356A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-28

申请号：US15718183

申请日：2017-09-28

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： Michael James Horning ,  David Allison Trout ,  Justin Dennis Pickel

IPC: H01R13/6473 ,  H01R13/6585 ,  H01R13/502

CPC classification number: H01R13/6473 ,  H01R12/585 ,  H01R12/716 ,  H01R12/73 ,  H01R13/502 ,  H01R13/6585 ,  H01R13/6594

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing, plural signal contacts, and plural impedance control (IC) members. The housing includes a base having a mating face. The base includes an array of openings along the mating face. The signal contacts are arranged in contact pairs, and are held in the openings of the base. The signal contacts include mating segments that extend a height beyond the mating face of the base for electrically connecting to corresponding mating signal contacts of a mating connector. The IC members are on the base and extend a height beyond the mating face of the base that is less than the height of the mating segments of the signal contacts. Each of the IC members is disposed one or more of adjacent to or between the signal contacts of a corresponding contact pair.

公开(公告)号：US20180138620A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-17

申请号：US15840177

申请日：2017-12-13

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： Michael James Horning ,  Arturo Pachon Munoz ,  John Joseph Consoli ,  Timothy Robert Minnick

IPC: H01R13/03 ,  H01R13/658 ,  H01R13/514

CPC classification number: H01R13/03 ,  H01R13/514 ,  H01R13/658 ,  H01R13/6587

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and contact modules held by the housing. The contact modules include ground shields having ground contacts. The contact modules have a dielectric carrier that holds signal contacts. The ground contacts are configured for mating with corresponding ground contacts of a complementary mating connector, and are plated with a ground contact plating that includes at least one ground contact plating material. An interface between the ground contacts held and the corresponding ground contacts of the complementary mating connector has a first contact resistance. The signal contacts are configured for mating with corresponding signal contacts of the mating connector, and are plated with a signal contact plating. An interface between the signal contacts held and the signal contacts of the complimentary mating connector has a second contact resistance. The second contact resistance is lower than the first contact resistance.

公开(公告)号：US11355902B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-07

申请号：US16739917

申请日：2020-01-10

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： Jevon Ryan Corban ,  David Patrick Orris ,  Michael James Horning ,  Howard Wallace Andrews, Jr. ,  Douglas Edward Shirk ,  David Robert Baechtle

IPC: H02B1/20 ,  H01R13/11 ,  H01R13/187 ,  H01R24/58

Abstract: A power connector includes first and second power terminals having first and second contact stacks and first and second plates for termination to corresponding power element. The contact stacks have contacts separate and discrete from each other and from the plate. Each contact has a base and a mating beam. The bases are aligned and mechanically and electrically coupled to the plate. A housing has an end wall and a fastener that mechanically and electrically couples the bases to the plate. The power terminals are arranged such that the first and second mating beams oppose each other across a mating slot that receives a bus bar with the first mating beams mechanically and electrically engaging a first bus rail at a first side of the bus bar and the second mating beams mechanically and electrically engaging a second bus rail at a second side of the bus bar.

公开(公告)号：US11108179B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-31

申请号：US15840177

申请日：2017-12-13

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： Michael James Horning ,  Arturo Pachon Munoz ,  John Joseph Consoli ,  Timothy Robert Minnick

IPC: H01R13/03 ,  H01R13/6587 ,  H01R13/514 ,  H01R13/658

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and contact modules held by the housing. The contact modules include ground shields having ground contacts. The contact modules have a dielectric carrier that holds signal contacts. The ground contacts are configured for mating with corresponding ground contacts of a complementary mating connector, and are plated with a ground contact plating that includes at least one ground contact plating material. An interface between the ground contacts held and the corresponding ground contacts of the complementary mating connector has a first contact resistance. The signal contacts are configured for mating with corresponding signal contacts of the mating connector, and are plated with a signal contact plating. An interface between the signal contacts held and the signal contacts of the complimentary mating connector has a second contact resistance. The second contact resistance is lower than the first contact resistance.

公开(公告)号：US20200144772A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-07

申请号：US16180226

申请日：2018-11-05

Applicant: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION

Inventor： David Allison Trout ,  Jeffrey Byron McClinton ,  Michael James Horning ,  John Joseph Consoli

IPC: H01R13/658 ,  H01R13/6582 ,  H01R13/6587

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a front housing and a contact module received in a cavity of the front housing having a frame assembly including a dielectric holder holding signal contacts. Each signal contact has a mating end and a terminating end. A ground shield is coupled to the dielectric holder for shielding the signal contacts. The ground shield has a ground pad at the mating end, mating beams extending from the ground pad for mating with corresponding header ground shields of a header connector and ground beams between corresponding mating beams for mating with corresponding header ground shields