Electrical connector with ground terminals and shielding ground terminals around signal terminals

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12107370-B2
Application number	US-202318328793-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 5, 2023
Priority date	Oct 9, 2020
Publication date	Oct 1, 2024
Grant date	Oct 1, 2024

Abstract

An electrical connector connected with a cable connector connected to cables. The cable connector comprises a plurality of ground terminals, a plurality of signal terminals, and an electromagnetic shielding member. The electrical connector comprises a circuit board, a plurality of ground conductive pads, a plurality of signal conductive pads, and a shielding ground conductive pad. The circuit board comprises two electrical connecting areas that are parallel to each other along first direction. The plurality of ground conductive pads are disposed on a surface of the circuit board at intervals. At least one signal conductive pad is disposed between two adjacent ground conductive pads along second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. Each of the signal conductive pads being directly connected with the corresponding signal terminal and not directly connected to the cables. The shielding ground conductive pad is disposed on the surface of the circuit board.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrical connector connected with a cable connector, the cable connector connected to cables and comprising a plurality of ground terminals, a plurality of signal terminals and an electromagnetic shielding member, the electrical connector comprising:
a circuit board comprising two electrical connecting areas disposed on a same surface of the circuit board and that are parallel to each other along a first direction, wherein the circuit board only connects with the cable connector and does not directly connect to the cables;
each of the two electrical connecting areas comprising:
a plurality of ground conductive pads disposed on the surface of the circuit board at intervals, each of the ground conductive pads being only connected with the corresponding ground terminal;
a plurality of signal conductive pads disposed on the surface of the circuit board at intervals, at least one signal conductive pad being disposed between two adjacent ground conductive pads along a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, each of the signal conductive pads being only directly connected with the corresponding signal terminal; and
a shielding ground conductive pad, the shielding ground conductive pad being disposed on the surface of the circuit board and being disposed parallel to the plurality of ground conductive pads and the plurality of signal conductive pads along the first direction, the shielding ground conductive pad being connected with the electromagnetic shielding member,
wherein, one of the shielding ground conductive pads of the two electrical connecting areas is disposed between the plurality of ground conductive pads and the plurality of signal conductive pads of different electrical connecting areas along the first direction;
wherein each of the ground conductive pads is connected with the shielding ground conductive pad;
wherein the electrical connector comprises a plurality of second conductive connecting pads disposed on the surface of the electrical connecting area of the circuit board, each of the second conductive connecting pads being connected with the corresponding ground conductive pad and the shielding ground conductive pad.

2. The electrical connector according to claim 1 , wherein the number of shielding ground conductive pads can be multiple; the plurality of shielding ground conductive pads are disposed on the surface of the electrical connecting area of the circuit board at intervals.

3. The electrical connector according to claim 2 , wherein each of the shielding ground conductive pads corresponds to a gap between the adjacent ground conductive pad and the signal conductive pad.

4. The electrical connector according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of ground conductive pads are integrally connected in series into one piece.

5. The electrical connector according to claim 4 comprising a plurality of first conductive connecting pads disposed on the surface of the electrical connecting area of the circuit board, two ends of each of the first conductive connecting pads being respectively connected with the corresponding ground conductive pad, one end of each of two adjacent first conductive connecting pads being simultaneously connected with the same ground conductive pad, each of the first conductive connecting pads being disposed on one side of the signal conductive pad away from the shielding ground conductive pad.

6. The electrical connector according to claim 5 , wherein a gap between two ends of each of the first conductive connecting pads corresponds to at least one of the signal conductive pads.

7. The electrical connector according to claim 5 , wherein two ends of each of the first conductive connecting pads are respectively connected with two adjacent ground conductive pads.

8. The electrical connector according to claim 5 , wherein the plurality of first conductive connecting pads are integrally connected in series into one piece.

9. The electrical connector according to claim 5 , wherein each of the ground conductive pads is connected with the shielding ground conductive pad.

10. The electrical connector according to claim 9 comprising a plurality of second conductive connecting pads, each of the second conductive connecting pads being connected with the corresponding ground conductive pad and the shielding ground conductive pad.

11. The electrical connector according to claim 5 , wherein the number of electrical connecting areas is two; the two electrical connecting areas are arranged side by side; the plurality of first conductive connecting pads of one of the two electrical connecting areas are connected with the shielding ground conductive pad of the other electrical connecting area.

12. The electrical connector according to claim 1 comprising a first cover ground conductive pad, the first cover ground conductive pad being disposed on a surface of the circuit board and surrounding the electrical connecting area, the first cover ground conductive pad being connected with a metal cover of the cable connector.

13. The electrical connector according to claim 12 , wherein the first cover ground conductive pad is integrally connected with the plurality of ground conductive pads in series into one piece.

14. The electrical connector according to claim 12 , wherein the first cover ground conductive pad is integrally connected with the shielding ground conductive pad in series into one piece.

15. The electrical connector according to claim 12 , wherein the first cover ground conductive pad is integrally connected with the plurality of ground conductive pads and the shielding ground conductive pad in series into one piece.

16. The electrical connector according to claim 5 , wherein the metal cover of the cable connector comprises a plurality of ribs respectively connected with the corresponding first conductive connecting pad.

17. The electrical connector according to claim 16 comprising a plurality of second cover ground conductive pads respectively connected with the corresponding first conductive connecting pad, each of the second cover ground conductive pads being connected with the corresponding rib.

Assignees

• Dongguan Luxshare Tech Co Ltd
• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Huang Bin
• Li Ming
• Guo Rongzhe
• Chen Hongji
• Wang Kaide
• Zeng Tao
• Shen Shuyao

Classifications

• H01R13/6595

  with separate members fixing the shield to the PCB · CPC title

• H01R13/502

  composed of different pieces (H01R13/514 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01R13/648

  Protective earth or shield arrangements on coupling devices {, e.g. anti-static shielding}   (coaxially arranged shields H01R24/38) · CPC title

• H01R13/6585

  Shielding material individually surrounding or interposed between mutually spaced contacts · CPC title

• H05K1/0219

  Printed shielding conductors for shielding around or between signal conductors, e.g. coplanar or coaxial printed shielding conductors · CPC title