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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2020
Te Connectivity Services Gmbh, Schaffhausen, CH;
David Allison Trout, Lancaster, PA (US);
Douglas Edward Shirk, Elizabethtown, PA (US);
Jeffrey Byron McClinton, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Wei Peng, Mechanicsburg, PA (US);
Justin Dennis Pickel, Hummelstown, PA (US);
Timothy Robert Minnick, Enola, PA (US);
Edward Lee Hengst, Glen Rock, PA (US);
Karen Elizabeth Benjamin, Hershey, PA (US);
TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbH, Schaffhausen, CH;
Abstract
A header assembly includes a header housing and contact modules coupled to the header housing each having a frame assembly with a signal leadframe and a dielectric frame. The dielectric frame includes mating portion extensions at a front of the dielectric frame. The signal leadframe includes mating portions extending forward from the mating portion extensions. Each contact module includes a ground shield having ground shrouds providing electrical shielding for the mating portions. Each ground shroud includes shroud walls forming a shroud cavity receiving the corresponding mating portion extension. Each ground shroud includes a shroud transition to vary a depth of the shroud cavity along a length of the ground shroud.