US 12,249,780 B2
Card edge connector
Nitish Balakrishnan, Harrisburg, PA (US); Michael John Phillips, Camp Hill, PA (US); Charles Jameson Valentine, Lancaster, PA (US); and Michael Eugene Shirk, Grantville, PA (US)
Assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed by TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed on Aug. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/881,689.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/253,513, filed on Oct. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0116615 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 12/72 (2011.01); H01R 12/70 (2011.01); H01R 13/516 (2006.01); H01R 13/627 (2006.01); H01R 13/629 (2006.01); H01R 13/6592 (2011.01); H01R 31/08 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 12/721 (2013.01) [H01R 12/7005 (2013.01); H01R 13/516 (2013.01); H01R 13/629 (2013.01); H01R 13/6592 (2013.01); H01R 13/6271 (2013.01); H01R 31/085 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A card edge connector for mating with a pluggable module comprising:
a housing including a top and a bottom, the housing having a front and a rear, the housing having a first side and a second side, the bottom configured to be mounted to a host circuit board, the housing including a cavity, the housing including a card slot at the front of the housing, the card slot configured to receive a card edge of a module circuit card of the pluggable module;
a contact assembly received in the cavity, the contact assembly having a plurality of cable contacts arranged in an upper contact set and lower contact set, the cable contacts including signal contacts arranged in pairs and ground contacts arranged between the pairs of the signal contacts, each cable contact including a mating end and a terminating end, the mating end located in the card slot for mating with the module circuit card, the terminated ends of the signal contacts configured to be terminated to signal conductors of cables;
an upper ground bus bar electrically connected to the terminating ends of each of the ground contacts of the upper contact set and a lower ground bus bar electrically connected to each of the ground contacts of the lower contact set; and
a ground element coupled to at least one of the upper ground bus bar and the lower ground bus bar, the ground element including a board termination component configured to be terminated to the host circuit board, the ground element electrically connecting the at least one of the upper ground bus bar and the lower ground bus bar to the host circuit board.