Christopher L Blackburn

US Patent:

20220354013, Nov 3, 2022

Filed:

Apr 30, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/246085

Inventors:

- Schaffhausen, CH
Christopher William Blackburn - Bothell WA, US

International Classification:

H05K 7/10
H01R 13/05
H01R 13/11
H01R 13/629

Abstract:

An electronic module includes a module substrate has an upper surface and a lower surface. The module substrate has a package pad array having package contact pads at the upper surface. The module substrate has a socket pad array having socket contact pads at the upper surface. The module substrate has guide pin locating pads associated with the socket pad array. The electronic module has an electronic package coupled to the package contact pads at the package pad array. The electronic module has guide pins surface mounted to the guide pin locating pads. The electronic module has a socket assembly coupled to the module substrate. The socket assembly has a socket housing holding socket contacts. The socket contacts are coupled to the socket contact pads at the socket pad array. The socket frame including pockets receiving the guide pins to locate the socket assembly relative to the module substrate.

US Patent:

20230090091, Mar 23, 2023

Filed:

Sep 15, 2022

Appl. No.:

17/945500

Inventors:

- Shanghai, CN
- Schaffhausen, CH
Jiefeng (Lear) Zhang - Shanghai, CN
Guoxiao (Neo) Shen - Shanghai, CN
Christopher Blackburn - Bothell WA, US

Assignee:

Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. - Shanghai
TE Connectivity Services GmbH - Schaffhausen

International Classification:

H05K 3/30

Abstract:

A pressurizing device includes a pressurizing plate having a first pressurizing plate surface and a second pressurizing plate surface opposite to each other. The first pressurizing plate surface presses an electronic element located on a first circuit board surface of a circuit board. The pressurizing device includes a plurality of peripheral pressurizing units applying pressure to a peripheral region of the second pressurizing plate surface and a plurality of central pressurizing units applying pressure to a central region of the second pressurizing plate surface.

US Patent:

20210399450, Dec 23, 2021

Filed:

May 3, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/246939

Inventors:

- Schaffhausen, CH
Christopher William Blackburn - Bothell WA, US
Matthew Ryan Schmitt - Middletown PA, US

International Classification:

H01R 12/75
H05K 1/11
H01R 12/73
H01R 12/72
H01R 13/11

Abstract:

A communication system includes a circuit board assembly including a mating circuit board having a mating edge and a plurality of mating pads at the mating edge, the circuit board assembly having an electrical component electrically coupled to the mating circuit board. The communication system includes a cable receptacle connector removably coupled to the mating edge of the mating circuit board. The cable receptacle connector includes a connector housing having a connector cavity and a card slot. A cable extends from the connector housing. The cable receptacle connector includes signal contacts each having a mating end mated with the corresponding mating pads and a terminating end electrically connected to a cable conductor of the cable.

US Patent:

20210345506, Nov 4, 2021

Filed:

Apr 30, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/863426

Inventors:

- Kawasaki-shi, JP
- Schaffhausen, CH
Christopher WIlliam Blackburn - Bothell WA, US

International Classification:

H05K 7/10
G01R 1/04
H01R 13/24
H01R 12/70
H05K 1/18

Abstract:

A socket connector assembly for a communication system includes a socket connector having a socket housing holding socket contacts having deflectable spring beams. The socket connector assembly includes a cable assembly coupled to the socket connector having an outer housing holding a paddle card with paddle card contacts interfacing with the separable mating interfaces of the socket contacts. The cable assembly includes cables terminated to the paddle card coupled to corresponding paddle card contacts. The socket connector assembly includes a spring plate coupled to the outer housing secured to the host circuit board to press the cable assembly downward toward the host circuit board to compress the deflectable spring beams of the socket contacts.

US Patent:

20200301084, Sep 24, 2020

Filed:

Jun 8, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/895613

Inventors:

- Berwyn PA, US
Christopher William Blackburn - Bothell WA, US
Michael David Herring - Apex NC, US
Eric David Briant - Dillsburg PA, US

International Classification:

G02B 6/42
H01R 12/71
H01R 12/79
H01R 12/70
H01R 13/66
H01R 13/6582

Abstract:

A communication system includes a host circuit board and an interposer assembly coupled to the host circuit board having an interposer substrate including an host circuit board contacts at a lower surface and module contacts at an upper surface. The communication system includes an optical pluggable module having a mating interface along a bottom of the optical pluggable module facing the interposer assembly. The optical pluggable module includes a module substrate and optical engines coupled to the module substrate with optical fiber cables extending from the optical engines to the cable end. The module substrate has module substrate contacts at a lower surface of the module substrate being electrically connected to corresponding module contacts of the interposer assembly at the upper surface of the interposer substrate.

US Patent:

20200067225, Feb 27, 2020

Filed:

Aug 21, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/107070

Inventors:

- Berwyn PA, US
Christopher William Blackburn - Bothell WA, US
Richard Elof Hamner - Hummelstown PA, US

International Classification:

H01R 13/24
H01R 13/17
H01R 24/86
H01R 12/71
H01R 13/6593

Abstract:

An electrical connector includes a housing, electrical signal contacts, and biasing elements. The signal contacts are terminated to one or more electrical cables. The signal contacts are held by one or more contact units within the housing. The signal contacts are movable relative to the housing between an extended position and a retracted position. The retracted position is disposed closer to a back end of the housing than the extended position. The biasing elements are configured to bias the signal contacts toward the extended position. The signal contacts are pins with an end face at a distal end of each respective pin. The end faces of the signal contacts are configured to abut against end faces of corresponding mating signal contacts of a mating connector.

US Patent:

20190288422, Sep 19, 2019

Filed:

Feb 13, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/274899

Inventors:

- Berwyn PA, US
Christopher William Blackburn - Bothell WA, US
Eric David Briant - Dillsburg PA, US

International Classification:

H01R 12/72
H01R 13/6587
H01R 13/6582

Abstract:

A communication system includes a host circuit board, a receptacle assembly mounted to the host circuit board having a cage member defining a module cavity, and a pluggable module having a pluggable body loaded into the module cavity. The pluggable body has a mating interface along a bottom of the pluggable body facing the host circuit board. The pluggable module has a cable assembly having a cable and a cable connector at an end of the cable including signal contacts held by a contact holder that are terminated to signal conductors of the cable. The signal contacts have deflectable spring beams and mating interfaces along the deflectable spring beams exposed at the mating interface of the pluggable body to engage and directly mate with corresponding signal pads of the host circuit board.

US Patent:

20190288457, Sep 19, 2019

Filed:

Feb 13, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/274740

Inventors:

- Berwyn PA, US
Christopher William Blackburn - Bothell WA, US
Michael David Herring - Apex NC, US
Eric David Briant - Dillsburg PA, US

International Classification:

H01R 13/659
H01R 13/66
H01R 13/6587
H01R 12/59
H01R 12/72

Abstract:

A communication system includes a host circuit board and an interposer assembly coupled to the host circuit board having an interposer substrate including an upper surface and a lower surface. The interposer assembly has host circuit board contacts electrically connected to contact pads of the host circuit board and cable assembly contacts coupled to a pluggable module. The pluggable module includes a mating interface along a bottom of the pluggable module facing the interposer assembly. The pluggable module includes a cable assembly having a cable at the cable end. The cable has a signal conductor and a ground conductor being electrically connected to corresponding cable assembly contacts of the interposer assembly at the upper surface of the interposer substrate.