High speed card edge connectors
CA 2329677 A1 · Owner: Fci Americas Technology, Inc. · Inventors: Salamone, Joseph R.; Letourneau, Guy L.
Overview
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A card edge connector includes an elongated longitudinally extending outer frame defining a reception region adapted to receive a plurality of chiclet modules including contact members and lying in parallel laterally extending planes which, as an assembly are positioned to connectively, engage with mating contacts. Each chiclet module includes an insulative housing having first and second spaced generally parallel elongated passages therein and a card receiving recess for reception therein between the first and second passages of a planar card having opposed surfaces with conductive contact members thereon. First and second contacts are received, respectively, in the first and second …
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- Filed December 27, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended December 27, 2020.
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