298 results about "Edge connector" patented technology

The invention provides a high-speed communication memory card edge connector, which comprises an insulating body provided with a lengthwise slot which is concavely arranged downwards from the top surface and is used for inserting an electronic module, and a plurality of terminal slots are respectively arranged in lengthwise side walls on two sides of the slot; the plurality of terminals are respectively accommodated in the corresponding terminal grooves in the two lengthwise side walls in a one-to-one correspondence manner, at least one part of the terminal grooves are internally provided with double-layer terminals, the rest of the terminal grooves are internally provided with single-layer terminals, and each single-layer terminal is fixed in the corresponding terminal groove in a plug-in mounting manner; at the position of the double-layer terminal, two terminals in each terminal groove and a plug piece are formed together in an embedded manner, and the plug piece is inserted and fixed in the terminal groove; according to the high-speed communication memory card edge connector, the assembly error rate can be reduced, the manufacturing cost can be reduced, and signal transmission channels can be increased, so that the signal transmission speed is greatly improved.

The present disclosure relates to a circuit board that includes a first edge connector configured to communicatively couple the circuit board to a first connector of a second circuit board. The first edge connector extends from a side of the circuit board a first length. The circuit board also includes a second edge connector configured to communicatively couple the circuit board to a second connector of the second circuit board. The second edge connector extends from the side of the circuit board a second length that is different than the first length.

A portable shelter with electromagnetic interference (EMI) protection includes a plurality of walls that define an interior space. The walls can be fixed or movable. An EMI protected edge connector joins at least two of the walls together. The EMI protected edge connector assembly can be fixed or hinged. The edge connector can include a metallic outer edge member with two legs and a separate metallic inner edge member with two legs to define an edge channel therebetween with: (i) the first outer leg and the first inner leg are arranged parallel and spaced-apart relative to each other; and (ii) the second outer leg and the second inner leg arranged parallel and spaced-apart relative to each other. The shelter walls can include an inner surface covered by a metallic foil inner layer. A first wall panel is received in a first portion of the edge channel with its metallic foil inner layer contacting the inner edge member and a second wall panel is received in a second portion of the edge channel with it metallic foil inner layer contacting the inner edge member.

The present invention provides a modular “fabric-unit” with preferred embodiments for the construction of a multitude of different self-supporting game boards of different types, sizes and shapes, wherein the fabric-unit comprises an array of 3-dimensional square “fabric-cells” for game tiles or 3D game pieces and game board accessories, mounting slots in the form of cross-connectors for attaching game board accessories and a background graphic layer, a plurality of hermaphroditic edge connectors on all sides of the fabric-unit, whereby the hermaphroditic edge connectors make a strong connection with hermaphroditic edge connectors of an adjacent inverted fabric-unit of the same construction, and the fabric-unit comprising small profile crossbars and walls and preferably high optical transparency material to increase visibility of a background graphic layer, and matching edge-panels for providing a cosmetic perimeter to the game board and for attaching a background graphic layer.

The invention provides a high-speed communication memory card edge connector which comprises an insulating body, the insulating body is provided with a lengthwise slot which is concavely arranged downwards from the top surface and is used for inserting an electronic module, lengthwise side walls at two sides of the slot are respectively provided with a plurality of terminal slots, and at least one end of the insulating body is provided with an ear clip accommodating space and a pivoting part which is pivoted with an ear clip; the at least one ear clip is pivoted at one end of the insulating body; the plurality of terminals are respectively accommodated in the corresponding terminal grooves in the two lengthwise side walls in a one-to-one correspondence manner, at least one part of the terminal grooves are internally provided with double-layer terminals, and the rest of the terminal grooves are internally provided with single-layer terminals; according to the high-speed communication memory card edge connector, a signal transmission channel is added, so that the signal transmission speed is greatly improved.

A connection system comprises a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board comprises a top face and a bottom face. The printed circuit board also comprises a first edge that is normal to the top face and bottom face. The printed circuit board also comprises a second edge that is normal to the top face and bottom face. The first edge face and second edge face intersect at an angle that is not a straight angle. The connection system also comprises a coplanar card-edge socket on the printed circuit board. The socket comprises a top section that interfaces with the top face of the printed circuit board along the first and second edge faces of the printed circuit board. The socked also comprises a bottom section that interfaces with the bottom face of the printed circuit board along the first and second edge faces of the printed circuit board.

A connector that enables electronic assemblies to be efficiently configured for any of multiple power requirements. The connector may have multiple interfaces such that when the connector is mounted to a printed circuit board (PCB), it may receive power through an interface and distribute it to components on the PCB through another interface. The connector may also have an interface that supports a connection to a conductive interconnect, which may distribute power to a second connector mounted to the same PCB. Power may be distributed to components mounted to the PCB without passing through the mounting interface of the first connector. As a result, the current density in the PCB adjacent the first connector is reduced relative to current density required to supply current to all components through the mounting interface of the first connector. The PCB may have fewer layers than a conventional PCB assembly supporting comparable functionality.

A card edge connector includes: a connector base having a card slot and plural terminals; a latch located at one end of the connector base for locking a card; and a releasing member. The releasing member includes two levers and a moving member, the levers are connected with the connector base in a pivoting manner, a first end of the lever is connected with the latch and an opposite second end of the lever is coupled to the moving member, wherein when the card is inserted into the slot and presses against the moving member downwards, the moving member drives the second ends of the levers to move downward, resulting in the first ends moving upwards to push the latch to lock with the card, and when the card is pulled out the moving member resets and drives the levers to release the latch from the card.

An interface apparatus for installing an add-in module to an information handling system includes the add-in module and an add-in module socket. The add-in module includes a card-edge connector on a first edge of the add-in module, and an electrical contact finger on a second edge of the add-in module. The add-in module socket is affixed to the information handling system and receives the add-in module. The add-in module socket includes a card-edge connector interface for receiving the card edge connector, and a slot channel for receiving the second edge of the add-in module. The slot channel includes an electrical contact pad configured such that, when the add-in module is installed into the add-in module socket, a current is provided between the add-in module socket and the add-in module through the electrical contact pad and the electrical contact finger.

A component for improving the performance of computers using high speed memories while retaining the flexibility to install only a subset of the memories the computer can support. The component may have a blade portion configured for insertion into the mating interface of connectors forming memory sockets in the computer. The blade portion may include absorptive material selectively placed adjacent conductive elements within the connector so as to damp or prevent undesirable electromagnetic characteristics, such as stub resonances, within memory sockets that are not populated with memories. The component may have absorptive material coupled to signal and ground conductive elements of unpopulated card edge connectors and may have insulative regions that provide isolation between the absorptive material and power conductive elements. The component may be shaped for easy insertion and retention and later removal from the connector to allow a memory card to be later added to the computer.

An information handling system peripheral display presents visual images with a display panel. A timing controller board has an edge connector that interfaces with a scalar board edge connector when the scalar board couples with slots at posts of the back side. The scalar board couples display cable ports to accept display information from an information handling system and extends the display cable ports out of openings of the midplane. The scalar board communicates visual information to the adjacent timing controller board through the edge connector without the use of a cable. A power board couples with posts and slots adjacent the scalar board to engage a power connector with power pins into a socket of the power board. Power communicates from the power board through the scalar board to the timing controller board and then to a backlight through a pogo pin and contact pad interface.

A printed circuit board (PCB) is provided and includes a plurality of edge connectors, a pin connector, and a plurality of electrical lines each electrically connecting one of the plurality of edge connectors to the pin connector. The plurality of edge connectors are positioned on the PCB to enable the plurality of edge connectors to interface with respective connectors of a plurality of configurations of circuit breakers. The configurations may include a configuration including a first type of circuit breaker and a configuration including a second type of circuit breaker. The first and second types of circuit breakers may be 1-63 ampere (A) and 80-125A circuit breakers or 80-125A and 200A circuit breakers, or may be any of a variety of other types.

According to various embodiments, a processing subsystem includes: a first printed circuit board (PCB) that includes an edge connector that is oriented perpendicular to a first coordinate axis and is located at a first level on the first coordinate axis, and a second PCB that is perpendicular to the first coordinate axis and located at a second level on the first coordinate axis, wherein the second level is different from the first level, and the second PCB has a topside on which a processor is mounted.

A card edge connector includes a connector housing having a cavity and holding a contact assembly in the cavity. The contact assembly has a contact positioner holding contacts in a contact array. Each contact includes a mating end, a terminating end, and an intermediate portion between the mating end and the terminating end. The card edge connector includes a connector sleeve coupled to the connector housing movable between a retracted position and an advanced position. The connector sleeve includes an insert received in the cavity having a card slot configured to receive a module circuit board of a pluggable module. The insert includes press anvils configured to engage the intermediate portions of the contacts to move the mating ends of the contacts toward the module circuit board to mate with corresponding contact pads on the module circuit board when moved to the advanced position.

A shielding member adapted to cover a card edge connector that has a card slot for inserting an electronic card includes a shielding cover covering the card edge connector, having an opening disposed in a position corresponding to a jack of the card slot, and including a top plate, an extending plate, and several side plates. The top plate is disposed on a top portion of the card edge connector. The side plates are connected to the top plate and are disposed on several side portions of the card edge connector. The extending plate is located near the opening of the shielding cover and has a connecting portion connected to the top plate and a contacting portion connected to the connecting portion, formed by bending toward the opening of the shielding cover, and being in contact with the electronic card in a direction away from the opening.

A component for a vehicle interior is disclosed. The component may comprise a composite structure comprising a substrate comprising a fiber panel comprising a conductor arrangement; the conductor arrangement may be configured to provide a functional circuit for the composite structure. The substrate may comprise a structural substrate; the fiber panel may comprise a compression-formed fiber panel. The fiber panel with functional circuit may be configured for connection by an edge connector. The composite structure may comprise a feature comprising a resin / molded structure. The feature may comprise a border / reinforcement for the fiber panel; the feature may comprise structural reinforcement for the composite structure. The fiber panel may comprise a conductor pattern comprising a conductive trace; the conductor arrangement may comprise conductive wire or conductive thread. The component may comprise trim panel, instrument panel, door panel, overhead panel, console, steering wheel, trunk, frunk, hatch, visor, receptacle, etc.

A removable module, a system and a method. The removable module comprising a PCB having an OCP NIC form factor, an OCP edge connector comprising a plurality of pins on an edge of the PCB, wherein the OCP edge connector is configured to mate with an OCP board connector of a primary system board of the computing system in an installed state of the removable module in the computing system, a NIC chip mounted to the PCB and communicably connected to the OCP edge connector, at least one communication port mounted to the PCB and communicably connected to the NIC chip and a first PCIe slot mounted on the PCB and communicably connected to the OCP edge connector, wherein the NIC chip and the first PCIe slot are configured to be communicably connected to the primary system board via the OCP edge connector.

A card edge connector including a body including a first side and a second side, an open socket extending through the body from the first side to the second side, where the open socket includes an interior wall and a plurality of channels extending within the interior wall, and a plurality of electrical contacts positioned within the plurality of channels and extending into the open socket.

A server system includes a chassis, a primary system board, and a front drive cage. The front drive cage includes a plurality of front bays. An open compute project (OCP) storage controller module is installable within a given front bay of the plurality of front bays. The OCP storage controller module includes an OCP form factor PCB including an OCP edge connector formed in an edge therein. The OCP edge connector mates mated with an OCP connector disposed in the given front bay sch that the OCP storage controller module is electrically connected to a primary system board. Storage controller circuitry is mounted to and / or formed in the PCB, and an energy storage device is mounted to the PCB. The energy storage device comprises a housing and a battery contained in the housing and electrically connected to the storage controller circuitry.

A card edge connector with latches that improve the connector's reliability. The connector comprises a housing having a slot for receiving a card and latches on opposite ends of the slot for locking the card in the slot. Each latch includes a body and a projection extending in a transverse direction from a side surface of the body. The latch is pivotably connected to the housing by the projection. The latch may rotate about the projection between a locked position and an unlocked position. The body includes a lower body and an upper body wider than the lower body in the transverse direction. The projection is disposed on the lower body. The latch further includes a protrusion extending between the projection and the upper body. Such a configuration restricts the latches from moving in the housing and therefore improves the reliability of the connector.

A power terminal includes first and second conductive sheets. The first conductive sheet includes a first joining portion, first fingers extending from the first joining portion, and a first mounting portion extending from the first joining portion and configured to mount to a substrate. The first fingers have hooked ends connected to the first joining portion by first beams. The second conductive sheet includes a second joining portion, second fingers extending from the second joining portion, and a second mounting portion extending from the second joining portion and configured to mount to the substrate. The two second fingers have curved ends connected to the second joining portion by second beams. The hooked ends and the curved ends include contact surfaces configured to contact a same side of a card. At least one of the first and second mounting portions includes at least two mounting tails.

The invention discloses a Riser card capable of being flexibly configured, which supports three PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) Slot slots and is additionally provided with a golden finger edge connector and two high-speed MCIO (Multi-Chip Input / Output) connectors, one PCIe Slot slot is located at the lowest layer and is connected with the golden finger edge connector; the other two PCIe Slot slots are positioned on the uppermost layer and the middle layer and are respectively connected with the mainboard through the two high-speed MCIO connectors; and the Riser card configures two PCIe Slot slots connected with the high-speed MCIO connector in the Riser card according to the setting of a PCIe channel in a basic input / output system or a bottom plate management controller, and configures the two PCIe Slot slots as one PCIe x16 or two PCIe x8, and the two PCIe Slot slots are connected with the high-speed MCIO connector in the Riser card according to the setting of the PCIe channel in the basic input / output system or the bottom plate management controller. By means of the Riser card, a user can flexibly configure the PCIe Slot slot on the Riser card through a BMC or a BIOS, and the problems that when PCIe devices with different PCIe bandwidths are replaced, the Riser card needs to be replaced, and flexible configuration cannot be achieved are solved; the hardware cost of preparing different Riser cards is reduced, and the corresponding service speed is improved.

A card edge connector for high bandwidth transmission. The connector may include a housing having a groove between two walls. The walls may include slots holding terminals of the connector. The terminals of the connector may each include a mating contact portion, a mounting contact portion opposite the mating contact portion, a bearing portion extending from the mounting contact portion and fixed in the housing, and a beam extending from the bearing portion. The beams may be configured to flex when the mating contact portions make contact with pads on a card. The terminals may each include a curved transition portion between the mating contact portion and the beam so as to prevent the beam from touching the card. The housing may include holes through the walls between mating contact portions of selected adjacent terminals. Such a configuration reduces impedance mismatch at the mating interface and therefore improve signal integrity.

A circuit board (62) is arranged in a receptacle (61). A housing (11, 12) having an accommodation space (21) is fit into the receptacle (61). A protecting member (14) is arranged movably to an initial position and a connection position in the housing (11, 12). A terminal fitting (13) includes a contact point portion (25) facing the accommodation space (21). The protecting member (14) includes a body portion (41) to be located on an opening side of the accommodation space (21) at the initial position and retracted from the opening side of the accommodation space (21) at the connection position, and a hooked portion (42) connected to an end part of the body (41). The receptacle (61) includes a hooking portion (64) on an inner surface for moving the protecting member (14) from the connection position to the initial position by hooking the hooked portion (42).

A connector system having a first connector and a second connector. The first connector is mounted to a substrate and includes a housing and a first shell. The first shell has solder hold down posts which extend from a circuit board mounting surface of the first connector. Securing openings are provided in side walls of the first shell. The second connector includes a daughterboard and a second shell. The second shell has side plates, resilient latching projections are formed from mating connector alignment portions positioned on the side plates proximate a connector receiving surface of the second connector. The resilient latching projections of the second connector cooperate with the securing openings of the first connector to secure the second connector to the first connector. The first connector is secured to the substrate by soldering the solder hold down posts to the substrate.

According to the card edge connector, the edge connector and the connector assembly, an independent conductive terminal of a traditional edge connector is replaced by a double-sided conductive layer structure (the conductive layers are arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the conductor plate), so that two electric signals can be transmitted by the two conductive layers. Under the same volume, the layout of the conductive layers increases the number of signal transmission channels in unit space, realizes higher-density signal transmission, reduces the overall occupied space of the connector assembly, and can adapt to the requirements of compact electronic equipment. Besides, each conductive terminal is independent in function and supports self-defined pin functions, such as a power supply, a signal and a ground wire, so that the customization requirements of diversified application scenes are met, and the product suitability is improved.

The invention relates to a device and a kit that can be assembled into a structure. Apparatus and methods provide tower assemblies that can be reconfigured to provide a substantially infinite number of configurations. Floor panels may be reformed. Inner and outer walls, including portions with doors and windows, may be added or removed. The multi-floor assembly may be built from each further floor supported by the underlying floor. A complex roof can be built and placed on the top of each floor. Such roofs and floors can be easily removed for viewing the interior scene. However, when removed, the roof and the underlying floor maintain their shape because the roof and floor are joined together by dowels. The floor portions may also be connected by edge connectors around the floor portions.

The invention provides an expansion assembly which can be applied to the technical field of circuit boards. The expansion assembly comprises a power supply control board which comprises a first signal connector and a second signal connector; the power supply control board is used for receiving a power supply signal from the server mainboard through the first signal connector, processing the power supply signal to obtain a target power supply signal, and outputting the target power supply signal through the second signal connector; the wire board comprises a wire board connector and a signal output groove; the line board connector is connected to the second signal connector and is used for transmitting a target power supply signal from the second signal connector to the signal output groove; the card edge connector comprises a plug wire; and the card edge connector is used for transmitting a target power supply signal from the signal output slot to an expansion circuit board of the card edge connector under the condition that the plug wire is inserted into the signal output slot, so as to supply power to the expansion circuit board.

A riser card includes a circuit board, first and second riser edge connectors, and first and second riser socket connectors that are configured to mate with first and second drive connectors respectively, of first and second storage drives. Each of the first and second riser edge connectors has a first form factor. Further, the first and second riser edge connectors are positioned at a first edge and a second edge respectively, of the circuit board. The first riser socket connector is mounted to a first face of the circuit board and electrically connected to the first riser edge connector. The second riser socket connector is mounted to a second face of the circuit board and electrically connected to the second riser edge connector. The first riser socket connector has a second form factor, and the second riser socket connector has a third form factor different from the second form factor.