Electrical connectors – With circuit conductors and safety grounding provision – Direct grounding of coupling part member passing into aperture
Patent
1992-11-20
1993-09-14
Desmond, Eugene F.
Electrical connectors
With circuit conductors and safety grounding provision
Direct grounding of coupling part member passing into aperture
361730, 361737, H01R 466
Patent
active
052443973
ABSTRACT:
An IC card (10, FIG. 1 ) and a cable harness (14) which can connect to the input/output port at the rear of the card, are provided, which have effective grounding contacts. The cable harness (14) has a cable connector (60) with a pair of laterally-spaced plug parts (90, 92) holding contacts and pluggable into corresponding recesses at the rear of the card, and has a grounding cable contact (74) of pin shape lying between the plug parts. The grounding pin is exposed, but is protected by the plug parts. The card has a frame (16) with an integrally molded rear connector (42), and a circuit board (20) is mounted on the frame. The circuit board has a lower surface (154, FIG. 6 ) with a ground plane (156) at the rearward portion thereof, and has an upper surface (140, FIG. 5 ) with two rows of signal traces (142, 144) and with a ground trace (152) between them, the ground trace being connected through the board to the ground plane on the lower surface of the board. The rear of the frame forms a passage (I80, FIG. 7 ) for holding a grounding socket contact (80), the passage being formed by vertical holes (191-195) extending alternately from the top and from the bottom surface of the frame and across the passage.
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Desmond Eugene F.
ITT Corporation
Peterson Thomas L.
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