A contact assembly for an electrical connector includes a contact positioner having contact support walls holding a contact array. The contact array includes signal contacts and ground contacts interspersed with the signal contacts. The signal contacts include mating ends configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector and mounting ends configured to be terminated to a host circuit board. The signal contacts include transition portions between the mating ends and the mounting ends. The ground contacts include mating ends, mounting ends, and transition portions between the mating ends and the mounting ends. The contract assembly includes a ground bus wire extending transversely across the contact array. The ground bus wire is electrically connected to each of the ground contacts. The ground bus wire is electrically isolated from each of the signal contacts.

Disclosed herein is an electronic device including a first circuit board on which a first connector is mounted, a second circuit board on which a second connector connected to the first connector via a cable is mounted, a circuit board shield that covers the first circuit board and exposes the first connector, and a connector shield that is attached to the circuit board shield to cover the first connector and is removable from the circuit board shield.

Connector assemblies for making connections to a subassembly, such as a processor card, may include signal contact tips formed of a material different than that of an associated cable conductor. The signal contact tips may be formed of a super elastic material, such as nickel titanium. The connector assembly may include ground contact tips that similarly make a pressure contact to the electrical component may be electrically connected to a shield of the cable shield Housing modules that interlock or interface with a support member may be employed to manufacture connectors with any desired quantity of signal and ground contact tips in any suitable number of columns and rows. Each module may terminate a cable and provide pressure mount connections between signal conductors and the shield of the cable and conductive pads on the subassembly, and conductive or lossy grounded structures around the conductive elements carrying signals through the module.

A cable card assembly for an electrical connector includes a circuit card having upper and lower surfaces and extending between a cable end and a mating end with mating conductors at the mating end and cable conductors at the cable end. Cables are terminated to the circuit card that include signal conductors, ground shields surrounding the corresponding signal conductors, and drain wires electrically connected to the corresponding ground shields. The signal conductors are terminated to corresponding cable conductors. The cable card assembly includes a ground block separate and discrete from the circuit card and coupled to the circuit card. The ground block includes drain wire channels receiving corresponding drain wires. The ground block is electrically conductive to electrically connect the drain wires.

According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include a housing including a first plate, a second plate facing away from the first plate, and a side housing surrounding a space between the first plate and the second plate and joined to the second plate or provided integrally with the second plate, a display viewable through at least part of the first plate, a first Printed Circuit Board (PCB) disposed between the first plate and the second plate and including at least one first ground layer, a Flexible Printed Circuit Board (FPCB) at least partially overlapping the first PCB when viewed from above the first plate and including a first end electrically coupled to the first PCB, a second end, and at least one second ground layer, and a conductive structure comprising a conductive material disposed between the first PCB and the FPCB and electrically coupling the first ground layer and the second ground layer.

Disclosed is a compact coaxial cable connector for transmitting super-high frequency signals, which is adapted to connect a PCB to a single or multiple super-high frequency coaxial cable signal lines transmitting super-high frequency signals therethrough. The compact coaxial cable connector includes: a single or multiple coaxial cables each including an inner conductor, an outer conductor, a dielectric, and a sheath, wherein the outer conductor, the dielectric, and the sheath are stripped to expose the inner conductor over a predetermined length and a terminal of the exposed inner conductor is brought into electrical contact with a circuit signal line terminal pad formed on the PCB; and a male connector including a shielding can receiving the exposed inner conductors of the single or multiple coaxial cables, securing and protecting ends of the exposed inner conductors, and blocking electromagnetic waves generated from the inner conductors of the single or multiple coaxial cables.

With respect to a connector for attachment to a shielded flat cable including a signal wire and a ground wire arranged in parallel, an insulating layer covering the signal wire and the ground wire; and a first shield layer and a second shield layer respectively covering both sides of the insulating layer, wherein a terminal in which the signal wire and the ground wire are exposed is formed on a first shield layer side at an end in a longitudinal direction, the connector includes a casing, wherein the casing includes a bottom to face the first shield layer or the second shield layer, a top to face the first shield layer or the second shield layer, a side wall connected to the bottom and the top, a signal wire contact member, a ground wire contact member, and the connector further includes a signal wire contact member configured to come in contact with the signal wire of the terminal upon the shielded flat cable being attached, a ground wire contact member configured to come in contact with the ground wire of the terminal upon the shielded flat cable being attached, a first shield layer contact member configured to come in contact with the first shield layer upon the shielded flat cable being attached, and a second shield layer contact member configured to be electrically coupled to the second shield layer upon the shielded flat cable being attached, wherein the ground wire contact member is electrically coupled to the first shield layer contact member.

A cable connector includes a base and a mating portion extending downwardly from a lower side of the base, and an upper and a lower platform around an upper side of the base. First and second rows of contacts include connecting sections. The connecting sections of the first row are exposed upon the lower platform and the connecting sections of the second row are exposed upon the upper platform. Upper and lower rows of wires are located above the housing. Two grounding brackets are mounted upon the upper and lower platforms. Each bracket includes bulged sections and tails. Inner conductors of the wires are connected to the connecting sections of the differential-pair contacts, the braiding layers of the wires are sandwiched between the bulged sections and the housing in the vertical direction, and the tails are connected to the connecting sections of the grounding contacts.

A cable card assembly for an electrical connector includes a circuit card having upper and lower surfaces and extending between a cable end and a mating end with mating conductors at the mating end and cable conductors at the cable end. Cables are terminated to the circuit card that include signal conductors, ground shields surrounding the corresponding signal conductors, and drain wires electrically connected to the corresponding ground shields. The signal conductors are terminated to corresponding cable conductors. The cable card assembly includes a ground block separate and discrete from the circuit card and coupled to the circuit card. The ground block includes drain wire channels receiving corresponding drain wires. The ground block is electrically conductive to electrically connect the drain wires.

A Peripheral Component Interconnect Express/Serial Attached SCSI (PSAS) female connector includes a frame member, a terminal member, and a cover member; the frame member including a terminal groove disposed in the frame member and a tilt portion disposed in the terminal groove adjacent to a plug end; the terminal member inserted in the frame member and including a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) 7 pin terminal, a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 40 pin terminal, a 15 Pin signal terminal, a 6 Pin terminal, and a 4 Pin terminal. When the PSAS female connector is engaged with the male connector, the SATA 7 Pin terminal and the SAS 40 Pin terminal are pressed by a terminal of the male connector to be bent toward an outer lateral side of the terminal groove to contact the elastic plate of the cover member. The present invention effectively improves the cross interference during high speed transmission, thereby achieving the Generation 5 performance requirement.