US 12,444,863 B2
Electrical connector with high speed mounting interface
John Robert Dunham, Windham, NH (US); Marc B. Cartier, Jr., Durham, NH (US); Mark W. Gailus, Concord, MA (US); David Levine, Amherst, NH (US); Allan Astbury, Milford, NH (US); Vysakh Sivarajan, Nashua, NH (US); Daniel B. Provencher, Nashua, NH (US); and Eric Leo, Nashua, NH (US)
Assigned to Amphenol Corporation, Wallingford, CT (US)
Filed by Amphenol Corporation, Wallingford, CT (US)
Filed on Apr. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/138,535.
Application 18/138,535 is a continuation of application No. 17/159,794, filed on Jan. 27, 2021, granted, now 11,637,389.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/966,501, filed on Jan. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0420874 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 12/52 (2011.01); H01R 12/58 (2011.01); H01R 13/6585 (2011.01)
CPC H01R 12/52 (2013.01) [H01R 12/58 (2013.01); H01R 13/6585 (2013.01)] 29 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical connector comprising a mounting face, the electrical connector comprising:
a housing;
a plurality of conductive elements held within the housing and arranged in pairs of conductive elements, each of the plurality of conductive elements comprising:
a contact tail extending from the housing at the mounting face and comprising a first portion that is movable with respect to the housing in a first direction perpendicular to the mounting face and comprises a distal portion having a broadside with an edge, the edge facing in the first direction and configured for contacting a pad on a surface of a substrate;
and
a plurality of electromagnetic shielding members, each of the plurality of electromagnetic shielding members disposed at least partially around a respective pair of the pairs of conductive elements and comprising a shield tail extending alongside the contact tails of the respective pair.