Patent ID: 6475024
Filing Date: 2002-11-05
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A cable connector comprising a plurality of contacts which are arrayed and held in a lateral direction inside a housing and a cable with a front end portion having a first connecting section which is connected to said contacts and a rear portion which extends externally from said housing;wherein a shield cover is attached to said housing, covering at least a portion of an outer face thereof; said cable comprises a plurality of signal conducting layers formed onto one surface of a sheet of insulating material and a ground conducting layer formed onto another surface thereof, opposite the one surface; and a ground bar made from a conductive material is integrally joined by soldering to said ground conducting layer to extend in the lateral direction across a top of a front end section of said ground conducting layer in a second connecting section of the cable, said ground bar abutting with said shield cover so that said ground conducting layer is connected to said shield cover by said ground bar, front end portions of said plurality of signal conducting layers in the first connecting section being connected, respectively, to corresponding contacts of said plurality of contacts and the connecting sections between said signal conducting layers and said contacts at the front end of said cable are separated into a band shape for each of said plurality of signal conducting layers.