Patent ID: 11864353
Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC H

Claim 20:
21. A receptacle connector assembly comprising:
a receptacle cage including cage walls including a top wall, the cage walls forming a module channel configured to receive a pluggable module, the cage walls extending between a front end and a rear end of the receptacle cage, the top wall including an opening open to the pluggable module; and
a heat exchange assembly coupled to the top wall of the receptacle cage to dissipate heat from the pluggable module, the heat exchange assembly including a plate stack having a top and a bottom, the plate stack including a fin plates and spacer plates interleaved with the fin plates in the plate stack, each fin plate having fin sides extending between a fin lower edge and a fin upper edge, each spacer plate having spacer sides extending between a spacer lower edge and a spacer upper edge, the fin upper edges of the fin plates located above the spacer upper edges, air flow channels formed in gaps between the fin plates above the spacer plates, the fin lower edges and the spacer lower edges define a lower thermal interface configured to be in thermal communication with an electrical component to dissipate heat from the electrical component, wherein the fin plates are independently movable relative to the spacer plates in the plate stack to independently articulate the fin lower edges and the spacer lower edges at the lower thermal interface, the heat exchange assembly including a plate stabilizer structure positioning the fin upper edges relative to each other, the plate stabilizer structure including plate stabilizers having stabilizing fingers, the stabilizing fingers coupled to at least two fin plates positioning the fin upper edges of the corresponding fin plates.