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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2002
Richard A. Nelson, Geneva, IL (US);
Kathleen A. Sweeney, Naperville, IL (US);
Hazelton P. Avery, Batavia, IL (US);
Galen F. Fromm, North Aurora, IL (US);
Daniel B. Mcgowan, Naperville, IL (US);
Richard A. Nelson, Geneva, IL (US);
Kathleen A. Sweeney, Naperville, IL (US);
Hazelton P. Avery, Batavia, IL (US);
Galen F. Fromm, North Aurora, IL (US);
Daniel B. McGowan, Naperville, IL (US);
Molex Incorporated, Lisle, IL (US);
Abstract
A connector assembly is suitable for connecting circuit boards together. The connector assembly includes a series of ground and signal terminal sets assembled in composite wafers that may be held within a housing. The ground terminals include pairs of flat contact blades that are aligned together in abutting contact to form a column of ground contacts blades of double width, and the signal terminals are arranged in sets on opposite sides of the ground terminal blades and the signal terminals have general L-shapes that are arranged in sets of two pairs of contacts to form a cruciform pattern. One of the two connectors has solid L-shaped contacts, while the other of the two connectors has a pair of split contact arms that lie and extend in two different planes project from an associated terminal body in a manner so as to mate with the contact portions of the solid L-shaped contacts. The use of L-shaped contacts provides a redundant contact mating arrangement.