Patent ID: 11955742
Assignee: AMPHENOL FCI CONNECTORS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A board connector assembly comprising:
a printed circuit board having a surface; and
a surface-mount board connector, comprising:
a housing having a first sidewall and a second sidewall spaced apart from the first sidewall in a first direction, and a cavity between the first and second sidewalls;
a first set of terminals disposed in a first plurality of slots in the housing adjacent to the first sidewall and comprising first signal pairs and first ground terminals, each of the first set of terminals comprising a mating end and a contact tail;
a second set of terminals disposed in a second plurality of slots in the housing adjacent to the second side wall and comprising second signal pairs and second ground terminals, each of the second set of terminals comprising a mating end and a contact tail; and
a component disposed in the housing and electrically coupled to the first ground terminals to dampen resonance in the surface-mount board connector,
wherein:
the cavity extends through the housing in a first direction normal to the surface of the printed circuit board from a first end of the housing to a second end of the housing;
at the first end, the contact tails of the first and second sets of terminals are mounted to the surface of the printed circuit board; and
at the second end, the mating ends of the first and second sets of terminals are exposed.