Patent ID: 9748703
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H01R

Claim:
1. A cable connector, comprising: a multi-wire cable, the multi-wire cable including a plurality of electrical wires, each electrical wire including a pair of conductors encased in an insulative covering and an associated grounding shield extending over an exterior of the insulative covering; a connector housing, the connector housing including a hollow interior, the hollow interior including a circuit card disposed therein, the circuit card including a plurality of termination contact pads connected to circuitry thereof and an exposed ground plane, a free end of the multi-wire cable being received in a portion of the connector housing proximate the circuit card; and a carrier member for holding the electrical wires, as a group, in a preselected position and further interconnecting the grounding shields together, the carrier member including a conductive body portion including a preselected width sufficient to permit arrangement of all of the electrical wires thereupon in a pattern such that adjacent electrical wire pairs are separated by intervening spaces, and a plurality of nest portions defining a plurality of hollow enclosures, each nest portion receiving one of the electrical wires, the nest portions being interconnected together by base portions, the base portions including mounting surfaces that contact the ground plane, the nest portions including contact surfaces for contacting the grounding shields, the mounting surfaces being disposed between adjacent nest portions.