1. A connector, comprising:
a housing having a mating face and a mounting face;
a plurality of first wafers disposed within the housing, the first wafers each supporting a plurality of ground terminals, each ground terminal having a contact portion, a tail portion and an intervening body portion;
a plurality of second wafers disposed within the housing, each second wafer supporting a plurality of first signal terminals, each first signal terminal having a contact portion, a tail portion and an intervening body portion;
a plurality of third wafers disposed within the housing, each third wafer supporting a plurality of second signal terminals, each second signal terminal having a contact portion, a tail portion and an intervening body portion, wherein the second and third wafers are arranged to be positioned adjacent each other to form a pair of wafers with a first wafer position between each pair of wafers, the signal terminals in the pair of wafers being positioned in alignment so that the signal terminals in the adjacent wafer are, in operation, coupled together and the body portions of the coupled signal terminals are positioned a first distance apart, and wherein the signal terminals include divergent portions adjacent the tail portions, the divergent portions causing the signal terminals to be separated by a second distance that is greater than the first distance.
2. The connector of claim 1, wherein the body portions of the signal terminals have a first width and the divergent portions have second width, the second width being larger than the first width.
3. The connector of claim 2, wherein the second width is at least 30% larger than the first width.
4. The connector of claim 2, wherein the ground terminal body portion has third width which is greater than the second width.
5. The connector of claim 1, wherein the ground terminal tail portions are aligned along a first common axis and the first and second signal terminal tail portions are respectively aligned along second and third common axis, the second and third common axis being disposed on opposite sides of the first common axis.
6. The connector of claim 1, wherein the first and second divergent portions are symmetrical to each other around a first axis of symmetry.
7. The connector of claim 6, wherein the first and second signal terminal divergent body portions are symmetrical to each other around a second axis of symmetry.
8. The connector of claim 7, wherein the first and second axis of symmetry extend in different directions.
9. The connector of claim 6, wherein the first axis of symmetry extends in a longitudinal direction.
10. The connector of claim 1, wherein the ground terminal is wider than an overlap of a combination of the first and second signal terminal body portions.
11. The connector of claim 1, wherein the first, second and third wafers each includes a channel that extends a width of the respective wafer, each channel defining an air pocket between terminals in the same wafer.
12. The connector if claim 1, wherein the first and second signal terminal body portions have a horizontal component with a first length and the second and third wafer have a horizontal length, and the first length is not more than about 60% of the horizontal length.
13. A connector, comprising:
a housing, the housing having a mating face for engaging with an opposing connecting element, and a mounting face for mounting the connector to a circuit board;
a plurality of conductive signal and ground terminals supported in the housing, the signal terminals being arranged in sets of differential signal terminal pairs, each differential signal terminal pair having at least one ground terminal associated therewith, the signal terminals having contact portions that extend along the connector mating face and tail portions that extend along the connector mounting face and body portions that interconnect the signal terminal contact portions and terminal portions together, the signal terminal body portions further including divergent body portions interconnecting the signal terminal tail and body portions together; and
the differential signal terminal pairs being arranged in side-by-side in order to effect broadside capacitive coupling therebetween from the signal terminal contact portions to the signal terminal divergent body portions, and wherein the signal terminal divergent body portions diverge longitudinally from the side-by-side order.
14. The connector of claim 13, wherein the signal terminal tail portions of each of the differential signal terminal pairs are longitudinally spaced apart from each other.
15. The connector of claim 14, where each of the ground terminals includes a contact portion aligned with the differential signal terminal pair contact portions, a tail portion and a body portion interconnecting the ground terminal contact and tail portions together, the ground terminal body portion confronting one of the signal terminal body portions.
16. The connector of claim 15, wherein the ground terminal body portion is wider than either of the differential signal terminal pair body portions.
17. The connector of claim 15, wherein the signal terminal tail portions of each of the differential signal terminal pair lie on opposite sides of the tail portion of an associated ground terminal.
18. The connector of claim 15, wherein the signal terminal tail portions are arranged in an imaginary diagonal line.
19. The connector of claim 13, wherein the signal terminal body portions have a first width and the signal terminal divergent body portions have a second width, the first width being a constant width and the second width being a variable width.
20. The connector of claim 13, wherein the first and second signal terminal divergent body portions are symmetrical with each other around a first axis of symmetry.
21. The connector of claim 20, wherein the first and second signal terminal divergent body portions are symmetrical with each other around a second axis of symmetry.
22. The connector of claim 13, wherein the first and second axis of symmetry extend in different directions.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A refuse receptacle lifter movable between a retracted and a dumping position for lifting and inverting refuse receptacles of the type including spaced apart upper and lower engagement surfaces comprising a base;
an actuator carried by the base and having a rotary output shaft;
a lift arm including a first end attached to the rotary output shaft and a second end;
an upper engagement member carried at least in part by the lift arm;
a first actuator arm having first and second ends, the first end being pivotally mounted to the lift arm between the ends of the lift arm;
a second actuator arm having first and second ends, the first end being pivotally mounted to the base;
an extension assembly comprising first and second relatively movable members, the first member being attached to the second end of first actuator arm and the second member being attached to the second end of the second actuator arm;
a lower engagement member carried by a selected one of the first and second members of the extension assembly;
the first and second members of the extension assembly being relatively movable;
whereby upon rotation of the output shaft, the upper engagement member is moved between a lower retracted position and a raised position to lift an upper engagement surface of a refuse receptacle, and the lower engagement member is moved between a retracted position and an extended position for engagement with the lower engagement surface of a refuse receptacle when it is lifted and inverted.
2. The lifter of claim 1 in which the lift arm and actuator arms are disposed in generally overlapping relation when the lifter is in a retracted position.
3. The lifter of claim 1 in which the rotary output shaft has ends in opposed relation, a separate lift arm is attached to each end of the output shaft, the upper engagement member is carried on a cross bar that extends between the second ends of the lift arms.
4. The lifter of claim 1 in which the left arm is elongated and extends to a location whereby the upper engagement member is proximal to the lower engagement member when the lifter is in a retracted position.
5. The lifter of claim 1 in which the first actuator arm is pivotally mounted to the lift arm at a location proximal to the first end of the lift arm.
6. The lifter of claim 1 in which one of the first and second members comprises an inner telescoping member and the other comprises an outer telescoping members.
7. The lifter of claim 6 in which the telescoping members attached to the second actuator arms carry the lower receptacle engagement member.
8. The lifter of claim 1 in which the actuator is a rotary hydraulic actuator.