US 12,300,942 B2
Very high speed, high density electrical interconnection system with broadside subassemblies
Marc B. Cartier, Jr., Durham, NH (US); John Robert Dunham, Windham, NH (US); Mark W. Gailus, Concord, MA (US); Donald A. Girard, Jr., Bedford, NH (US); Brian Kirk, Amherst, NH (US); David Levine, Amherst, NH (US); and Vysakh Sivarajan, Nashua, NH (US)
Assigned to Amphenol Corporation, Wallingford, CT (US)
Filed by Amphenol Corporation, Wallingford, CT (US)
Filed on May 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/316,996.
Application 18/316,996 is a continuation of application No. 16/858,182, filed on Apr. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,688,980.
Application 16/858,182 is a continuation of application No. 15/882,720, filed on Jan. 29, 2018, granted, now 10,707,626.
Application 15/882,720 is a continuation of application No. 15/113,371, granted, now 9,905,975, previously published as PCT/US2015/012542, filed on Jan. 22, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/078,945, filed on Nov. 12, 2014.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/930,411, filed on Jan. 22, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2024/0014609 A1, Jan. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. H01R 13/6598 (2011.01); H01R 12/72 (2011.01); H01R 12/73 (2011.01); H01R 13/02 (2006.01); H01R 13/518 (2006.01); H01R 13/6585 (2011.01); H01R 13/6587 (2011.01); H01R 13/6599 (2011.01); H01R 43/24 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/6598 (2013.01) [H01R 12/724 (2013.01); H01R 12/737 (2013.01); H01R 13/025 (2013.01); H01R 13/518 (2013.01); H01R 13/6585 (2013.01); H01R 13/6587 (2013.01); H01R 13/6599 (2013.01); H01R 43/24 (2013.01); Y10T 29/4922 (2015.01); Y10T 29/49222 (2015.01)] 40 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical connector, comprising:
a plurality of pairs of signal conductors disposed in a plurality of parallel columns, each pair of the plurality of pairs of signal conductors comprising:
a pair of mating contact portions;
a pair of contact tails; and
a pair of intermediate portions coupling the pair of mating contact portions to the pair of contact tails, respectively; and
a plurality of reference conductors arranged to form at least a partial enclosure of each of the plurality of pairs of signal conductors, each of the at least partial enclosures having a smaller cross-sectional area at the pair of intermediate portions than at the pair of mating contact portions,
wherein a largest dimension of the at least partial enclosure at the pair of intermediate portions is smaller than a largest dimension of the at least partial enclosure at the pair of mating contact portions, and
wherein the at least partial enclosure comprises a waveguide structure that supports an electromagnetic propagation mode at a frequency based on the largest dimension of the at least partial enclosure.