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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1998
Scott Keith Mickievicz, Elizabethtown, PA (US);
George Preputnick, Harrisburg, PA (US);
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
An electrical connector assembly (30) includes an insulating housing (32) and assembled thereto a plurality of terminal modules (50). Each terminal module (50) has a plurality of terminals (56), each including a cantilevered beam (58) having a protuberance (59) at the leading end thereof, a conductor connecting portion (62) and an intermediate portion (60) therebetween encapsulated in an insulative web (76). The beams (58) of all the terminals (56) extend in a single line. The protuberances (59) of a first group (64) of adjacent terminals (56) in the row extend in one direction in the single line and the protuberances (59) of the beams of a second group (66) extend in an opposite direction in the single line.