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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1996
Warren Christian Hillbish, Hummelstown, PA (US);
William Gary Lenker, Marysville, PA (US);
Jeffrey Byron McClinton, Harrisburg, PA (US);
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A connector assembly (10) including at least one audio jack (36,38,40) stacked in an insulative housing spacer (24) with an electrical connector (80). The connector assembly is arranged for surface mounting to a circuit board (12) which is orthogonal to a metal panel (14) having openings (16,18,20,22) which provide access to the audio jacks and to the connector of the connector assembly. The electrical connector includes a forward mating end (92) surrounded by a metal shroud (98) which engages the metal panel. To ground the shroud to the circuit board, a combined ground strap and board lock (90) has one end secured to the circuit board and another end (116) clamped between the housing and a rearwardly extending tab (118) of the shroud.