Patent ID: 6739904
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A cable connector assembly comprising:a cable subassembly including a cable having a plurality of wire units, a spacer organizing said wire units, and a ground device disposed between said wire units, each wire unit comprising a pair of signal wires and a ground wire; and an electrical connector adapted for electrically interconnecting said cable and a complementary connector, and comprising a shroud and a conductive device received in said shroud for providing electrical path between said cable and said complementary connector; wherein there are two ground paths established from said ground device to said conductive device and from each of said ground wires to said conductive device, respectively, said two ground paths being located at opposite sides with respect to said conductive device such that substantially reducing crosstalk occurred during transmitting high rate data from said complementary connector to said cable; wherein said spacer defines a plurality of slits thereon, and wherein said ground device comprises a plurality of ground plates and each ground plate has a retaining portion received in corresponding slit, an intermediate portion conductively contacting to corresponding ground wire and separating adjacent two wire units, and a soldering portion soldering to said conductive device, wherein said conductive device comprises a terminal holder accommodating a plurality of terminals thereon, and a printed circuit board assembled on said terminal holder and electrically connecting to said terminals at a front end; wherein said printed circuit board arranges ground pads on opposite surfaces thereof, wherein said ground wires are organized on a plane and soldered to corresponding ground pads on one surface while said soldering portions of said ground plates are soldered to corresponding ground pads on an opposite surface of said printed circuit board; wherein said printed circuit board also provides a number of signal pads on said opposite surfaces thereof, said signal pads being alternately arranged between said ground pads and electrically connecting with said signal wires, respectively and correspondingly.