FCI USA LLC

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and conductive power and signal terminals. The housing has a mating interface that engages with a mating connector. The power terminals and signal terminals are attached to the housing and exposed at the mating interface. The housing is configured to be mounted on a circuit board such that a side housing surface is aligned with an edge of the circuit board. The connector may have a right-angle configuration and may mate with a right-angle mating connector such that an edge of the circuit board of the connector and an edge of a circuit board of the mating connector are aligned edge to edge and directly face each other to form a flat pair, or may mate with a vertical mating connector to form a corner pair. The power terminals and the signals terminals may be arranged in arrays of columns and rows.

A connector assembly that can drive multiple connectors through a mating or unmating sequence in which the connectors move in unison for a first part of the sequence and move in a staggered fashion for a second part of the sequence. The second part of the sequence may include an interval of largest mating force for the connectors, such that the largest mating force for each connector occurs at different times. The maximum total mating force for all the connectors is therefore reduced relative to an assembly in which connectors move in unison over the entire sequence. The connector assembly may include a connector actuator component and a drive mechanism. The connector actuator component may be mounted along a side of an electronic tray inserted in a rack and may be coupled, permanently or separably, to a drive mechanism at an end for engaging connectors in a sideplane.

The present application provides an electrical connector and electrical connector assembly. The electrical connector may comprise: an insulating housing comprising an insulating housing main body and a plurality of insulating tubular members which are configured to protrude from the insulating housing main body and arranged in one or more rows on the insulating housing main body, each row of insulating tubular members constituting an insulating tubular members group; a securing structure disposed on at least one end of at least one of the insulating tubular members groups in an extending direction thereof; a plurality of mating contacts accommodated in each of the insulating tubular members.

A plug connector includes a housing having recesses arranged in rows, plug contacts within the recesses, and securing structures configured to attach the plug connector to a receptacle connector. A receptacle connector includes a housing having tubular protrusions, the tubular protrusions having receptacle contacts at inner sides of the tubular protrusions, the tubular protrusions extending along a plugging and unplugging direction of the receptacle connector, wherein the tubular protrusions are arranged in rows; and securing structures configured to attach the receptacle connector to a plug connector. The securing structures may be rotating latches operated by rotation towards or away from a housing or over mold. The over mold may act as a gripping surface. Cable assemblies include the plug connector or the receptacle connector.

A high voltage power connector system including a cable assembly with a receptacle connector and a mating plug connector, both of which may be touch proof. The receptacle connector may include contacts within openings in the connector housing. The openings may receive at least an 8 mm contact from the plug connector. The receptacle may have an insulative pin within the opening to make the receptacle connector touch proof. The contacts of the plug connector may include an opening to receive the insulative pin. Reduced mating force may be achieved with polarizing features on structures associated with different contacts in the connector system oriented differently such that any force generated by engagement of one set of polarizing features is offset by others of the polarizing features. A cable assembly may be flexible as a result of a junction block connecting a large diameter cable bunder to multiple smaller diameter cables.

A modular connector system with components that can be economically assembled to provide high signal integrity in a harsh environment, such as an automobile. In some connectors, electrical conductors serving as signal conductors may be at least partially encircled by a conductive sheet formed into a tube. The tube may be formed by joining opposite edges of the sheet with tab portions extending from the edges. The tab portions may be bent to extend radially outwards from the cavity and crimped together, providing mechanical integrity to the shield, as well as a tab that polarizes the shield to block incorrect insertion into an insulative housing and can engage with components in the insulative housing to latch the shield in the housing. Other disclosed techniques economically and stably position electrical conductors, which may serve as signal terminals relative to ground structures, electrically and mechanically connect shields, or compensate for impedance variations.

A connector assembly configurable to support wires extending from a connector housing and routed away from the connector housing in any of multiple directions. The wire cover may have wire exit openings facing in multiple directions and may be attached to a connector housing in any of multiple orientations such that selection of an opening through which wires are routed and selecting an attachment orientation for the wire cover provides for four or more configurations.

A midboard cable connector assembly with a board connector and a cable connector. The board connector has terminals precisely positioned with respect to engagement features. A cable connector likewise has terminals precisely positioned with respect to complementary engagement features. When the connectors are pressed together for mating, the terminals of one or both connectors deform, generating a force that separates the connectors until the engagement features engage and block further backward motion. As the mating position is defined by the locations of the engagement features, the connectors can be designed with low over travel and a resulting short stub length, which promotes high frequency performance. High frequency performance is further promoted by a ground conductor interconnecting the beams forming mating contact portions of ground terminals, reducing the length of unconnected segments and by a cable clamp plate with compliant compression features that reduce distortion of the cables.

Flexible and low cost power interconnects. The interconnect includes a plug with an insulative support and a plurality of electrical contacts mounted to exterior surfaces of the insulative support. The plug may be simply formed with molding and stamping operations. In use, the plug may be connected in an electrical assembly to support one or multiple power circuits in a compact space. A receptacle for receiving the plug may have an opening with sides bounded by rows of independent electrical contacts that may similarly be connected to one or more power circuits within a printed circuit board to which the receptacle is mounted. The plug and receptacle may be configured such that, when the receptacle connector and plug are each mounted to substrates and the connectors are mated, the substrates are spaced 6 mm, 5 mm, or less.