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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2005
John Mark Myer, Millersville, PA (US);
Craig Maurice Campbell, Camp Hill, PA (US);
Charles Randall Malstrom, Lebanon, PA (US);
Daniel Williams Fry, Jr., Elizabethtown, PA (US);
Hurley Chester Moll, Harrisburg, PA (US);
John Mark Myer, Millersville, PA (US);
Craig Maurice Campbell, Camp Hill, PA (US);
Charles Randall Malstrom, Lebanon, PA (US);
Daniel Williams Fry, Jr., Elizabethtown, PA (US);
Hurley Chester Moll, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Tyco Electronics Corporation, Middletown, PA (US);
Abstract
A header assembly includes an insulative housing having a plurality of walls defining an interior cavity extending along a mating axis, and a plurality of contacts within the cavity and extending through one of the walls to an exterior of the housing for surface mounting to a circuit board. The insulative housing includes at least one alignment rib extending on an exterior surface thereof in a direction substantially perpendicular to the mating axis. The contacts are formed against and abutting the alignment rib, thereby ensuring coplanarity of the contacts for surface mounting to a circuit board.