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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2021
Foxconn (Kunshan) Computer Connector Co., Ltd., Kunshan, CN;
Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;
Terrance F. Little, Fullerton, CA (US);
Patrick R. Casher, North Aurora, IL (US);
Chih-Hsien Chou, San Jose, CA (US);
An-Jen Yang, Irvine, CA (US);
FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., Kunshan, CN;
FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
An electrical connector assembly includes an upper connector unit and a lower connector unit in a vertical direction. Each connector unit includes a contact module received within an insulative housing. The contact module includes an upper contact unit and a lower contacts unit stacked with each other. Each of the upper contact unit and the lower contact unit includes a front/outer contact part and a rear/inner contact part each including a plurality contacts essentially composed of a plurality of differential-pair signal contacts and a plurality of grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other in a the transverse direction wherein the differential-pair signal contacts are stamped and formed from sheet metal and successively integrally formed with a plurality of insulative transverse bars via insert-molding while the grounding contacts are directly blanked from sheet metal and associated with corresponding shielding plates assembled to the insulative transverse bar.