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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1997
George Preputnick, Harrisburg, PA (US);
James Lee Fedder, Etters, PA (US);
Scott Keith Mickievicz, Elizabethtown, PA (US);
Richard Nicholas Whyne, Mechanicsburg, PA (US);
Other;
Abstract
An electrical connector assembly (10) includes an insulating housing (12) and assembled thereto a plurality of terminal modules (30) and electrically conductive shields (60) therebetween. Each terminal module (30) includes an alternating pattern of first and second contacts (42,44), the intermediate portions (50) thereof being formed at selected locations therealong such that the intermediate portions of the first contacts (42) are encapsulated in the insulating web (54) proximate a first side surface (32) and the intermediate portions of the second contacts (44) are encapsulated in the web (54) proximate the second major surface (34) of the module. In the assembled connector (10), the first contacts (42) are spaced more closely to shield (60) along surface (32) and the second contacts (44) are spaced more closely to shield (60) along surface (34) thereby assuring primary coupling between each signal contact (40) and a respective ground shield (60) rather than to an adjacent signal contact (40).