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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1998
Michael J Gardner, Wheaton, IL (US);
David E Dunham, Aurora, IL (US);
Gene Whetstone, Batavia, IL (US);
Molex Incorporated, Lisle, IL (US);
Abstract
An improved mass connector termination assembly reduces mistermination errors and gives dual termination capability for simultaneous termination of selected wires to two different terminals. This simultaneous termination also simplifies the isolation of differential signal wire pairs. Three arrays of terminals are held within a terminal housing and include elongated contact portions that extend within a plug or receptacle portion of the connector housing and insulation displacement portions that extend along a terminating face of the connector. The terminal arrays extend through the connector between these two faces. Multiple contact portions of one of the three terminal arrays are bussed together with a single terminal and these single terminals are aligned with the terminals of the other two terminal arrays.