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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2018
Te Connectivity Corporation, Berwyn, PA (US);
Michael John Phillips, Camp Hill, PA (US);
Randall Robert Henry, Lebanon, PA (US);
Michael Joseph Tryson, Spring Grove, PA (US);
TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION, Berwyn, PA (US);
Abstract
A contact assembly includes a contact array having contacts with transition portions between mating and terminating portions with contact tails extending to tips. The contact assembly has a dielectric contact holder holding the transition portions. The contact assembly has a solder ball module defining a board interface to a host circuit board. The solder ball module has a gathering housing with contact channels extending between a top and a bottom receiving contact tails of corresponding contacts. The gathering housing has solder balls arranged at the bottom at each contact channel being electrically connected to the tips of the contact tails and being configured to be reflow soldered to circuits of the host circuit board to electrically connect the contacts to the host circuit board.