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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 1988
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1986
Alan S Walse, LaGrange, IL (US);
John Stipanuk, Glen Ellyn, IL (US);
Molex Incorporated, Lisle, IL (US);
Abstract
A connector assembly includes a stacked linear array of an alternating sequence of terminals and resiliently compressible insulator portions. The array is linearly compressed in an accordian-like fashion and is inserted in a housing having a cavity of length less than the uncompressed length of the array. The array is inserted in the housing and allowed to expand against opposing walls of the housing thereby maintaining the terminals in a self-compensating floating arrangement. A method for forming the connector assembly includes the steps of arranging resiliently compressible dielectric material between terminals to form a stacked linear array, linearly compressing the stacked linear array in an accordian-like fashion, inserting the compressed array in a housing, and thereafter maintaining the array in linear compression within the housing.