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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2004
John Joseph Consoli, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Brent Ryan Rothermel, Harrisburg, PA (US);
James Lee Fedder, Etters, PA (US);
George Richard Defibaugh, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Henry Otto Herman, Jr., Elizabethtown, PA (US);
Lynn Robert Sipe, Mifflintown, PA (US);
John Joseph Consoli, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Brent Ryan Rothermel, Harrisburg, PA (US);
James Lee Fedder, Etters, PA (US);
George Richard Defibaugh, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Henry Otto Herman, Jr., Elizabethtown, PA (US);
Lynn Robert Sipe, Mifflintown, PA (US);
Tyco Electronics Corporation, Middletown, PA (US);
Abstract
An electrical connector is provided that includes a dielectric housing having a plurality of slots therein, and a plurality of electrical contacts disposed within at least one of the slots. A plurality of electrical wafers, are each received in one of the plurality of slots. Each wafer has a first edge and a second edge. Some of the plurality of electrical wafers are signal wafers and some of the plurality of wafers are power wafers. Each of the power wafers includes at least one trace and at least one contact pad. The contact pad is sized to mate with a predetermined number of the plurality of contacts to transfer a predetermined amount of current through the trace.