US 11,705,649 B2
High performance cable termination
Mark M. Ayzenberg, Hudson, NH (US); Khwajahussain Gadwal Mohammed, Nashua, NH (US); Erdem Matoglu, Stratham, NH (US); and Catalin Muntean, Nashua, NH (US)
Assigned to Amphenol Corporation, Wallingford, CT (US)
Filed by Amphenol Corporation, Wallingford, CT (US)
Filed on Jan. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/574,914.
Application 17/574,914 is a continuation of application No. 16/716,176, filed on Dec. 16, 2019, granted, now 11,228,123.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/780,504, filed on Dec. 17, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0140505 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. H05K 1/11 (2006.01); H01R 12/53 (2011.01); H01R 13/6592 (2011.01); H01R 13/6471 (2011.01); H01R 13/6581 (2011.01); H01R 13/6594 (2011.01)
CPC H01R 12/53 (2013.01) [H01R 13/6471 (2013.01); H01R 13/6581 (2013.01); H01R 13/6592 (2013.01); H01R 13/6594 (2013.01); H05K 1/117 (2013.01); H05K 2201/10356 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cable assembly comprising:
a paddle card comprising a planar surface, wherein the paddle card comprises a first plurality of pads and a second plurality of pads on the planar surface;
a plurality of cables, wherein each cable of the plurality of cables comprises at least one conductor and a shield foil, wherein conductors of the at least one conductor are electrically and mechanically connected to pads of the first plurality of pads;
at least one conductive structure electrically and physically connected to pads of the second plurality of pads, wherein:
the at least one conductive structure comprises a second surface adjacent to and parallel to the planar surface of the paddle card and a plurality of tabs extending from the second surface; and
each tab of the plurality of tabs at least partially wraps around a respective cable of the plurality of cables and is electrically connected to the shield foil of the respective cable.