A communication system includes a first circuit card assembly having a first PCB and a first electrical connector having a receptacle housing and a mating housing received in the receptacle housing and being movable in the receptacle housing in a connector mating direction along a connector mating axis. The second circuit card assembly includes a second PCB and a second electrical connector having a header housing holding second contacts. The first PCB and/or the second PCB includes a slot receiving the other PCB in a board loading direction. The receptacle housing is coupled to the header housing in the board loading direction and the mating housing is movable within the receptacle housing toward the header housing in a connector mating direction generally perpendicular to the board loading direction.

A connector assembly includes a connector module having a connector body with side edges and end edges. The connector body has contact channels holding contacts. The connector assembly includes a mounting frame having side walls and an end wall opposite a window between the side walls. The window is open to and provides access to a passage that receives the connector module. The mounting frame includes a connector module support structure for supporting the connector module in the passage that defines a confined space oversized relative to the connector body of the connector module to allow a limited amount of floating movement in the confined space in a lateral direction that is perpendicular to the mating direction.

A multi-layer circuit board includes a first layer including a first trace, a second layer connected to the first layer and including a second trace, and a stubless interconnect positioned through the first layer and the second layer. The stubless interconnect includes a body that is electrically insulative, and a bridge trace that is electrically conductive and connected to the body, the bridge trace extending from the first trace to the second trace to electrically connect the first trace and the second trace.

This electrical connection structure for wiring boards comprises: a plurality of wiring boards which are arranged along one side of a display panel and distribute electric power and/or an electric signal for driving the display panel; and a connector which is mounted on the wiring boards adjacent to each other, and electrically connects the wiring boards via a belt-like wiring material. Terminal connecting region and connector fixing region of the wiring board are configured to enable both first mounting of the connector with a direction in which the belt-like wiring material is inserted from the display panel end and second mounting of the connector with a direction in which the belt-like wiring material is inserted from an end opposite to the display panel. Thus, the present invention provides an electrical connection structure for wiring boards, in which an insertion direction of a connector can be reversed.

An interface arrangement (1) includes a plug connector (4) arranged on an interface board (3). Furthermore, the interface arrangement (1) includes an electrically conductive cover (10) at least partially surrounding the plug connector (4). The electrically conductive cover (10) is adapted to seal an interface opening of the housing, in which opening the plug connector (4) can be arranged, against electromagnetic radiation. The electrically conductive cover (10) includes at least one tab (19) with a latching device. The interface board (3) includes at least one receiving device, which is adapted to receive the at least one tab (19) and to latch with the latching device. A computer system with such an interface arrangement (1), and a method for assembling such an interface arrangement (1).

A system and method for stabilizing a DIMM in a DIMM connector so as to reduce wear related electrical disconnections therebetween. A base is disposed between adjacent DIMM connectors and is coupled to the motherboard. A cap engages a top edge of a plurality of DIMMs and an adjustable force is applied to the top of the DIMMS by turning a screw which extends from the cap into the base.

A circuit board includes a first locking mechanism configured to secure the circuit board to a chassis. The circuit board also includes a connector disposed at an inboard end of the circuit board. The connector is configured to be electrically connected to a mating connector on either a backplane or a circuit board. The circuit board also includes a second locking mechanism. The second locking mechanism is configured to secure the connector of the circuit board to the mating connector of the backplane or the circuit card.

An electrical connector assembly can include a plug connector mountable to a planar substrate and a receptacle connector configured to receive a plurality of cables and that can mate with the plug connector. The plug connector may include a first inline terminal row and a second inline terminal row exposed on a mounting face to conductively contact the planar substrate. The receptacle connector can include a plurality of terminals having termination ends aligned in common wafer plane that can be conductively terminated with the plurality of cables. The plug connector and the electrical connector are configured to establish electrical channels from the termination ends coplanar with the common wafer plan to the first and second inline terminal rows.

A connector includes a wire harness, and a connector main body to which the wire harness is attached. The connector main body includes a first substrate stack in which a plurality of first substrates are held in a vertically stacked state, a first bottom substrate that forms the lowermost first substrate of the first substrate stack and includes a coupling post extending upward from an upper face, and a second substrate stack that is arranged on a lateral side of the first substrate stack and in which a plurality of second substrates are held in a vertically stacked state. At least one of the plurality of second substrates included in the second substrate stack is provided with a coupling hole (a through hole provided in the second substrates of the second layer, the fourth layer, and the sixth layer) that can be fitted to the coupling post (a right post).

This electrical connection structure for wiring boards comprises: a plurality of wiring boards which are arranged along one side of a display panel and distribute electric power and/or an electric signal for driving the display panel; and a connector which is mounted on the wiring boards adjacent to each other, and electrically connects the wiring boards via a belt-like wiring material. Terminal connecting region and connector fixing region of the wiring board are configured to enable both first mounting of the connector with a direction in which the belt-like wiring material is inserted from the display panel end and second mounting of the connector with a direction in which the belt-like wiring material is inserted from an end opposite to the display panel. Thus, the present invention provides an electrical connection structure for wiring boards, in which an insertion direction of a connector can be reversed.