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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2008
John E. Knaub, Etters, PA (US);
Lynn Robert Sipe, Mifflintown, PA (US);
David W. Helster, Dauphin, PA (US);
Timothy R. Minnick, Enola, PA (US);
Douglas W. Glover, Dauphin, PA (US);
John E. Knaub, Etters, PA (US);
Lynn Robert Sipe, Mifflintown, PA (US);
David W. Helster, Dauphin, PA (US);
Timothy R. Minnick, Enola, PA (US);
Douglas W. Glover, Dauphin, PA (US);
Tyco Electronics Corporation, Berwyn, PA (US);
Abstract
An electrical connector includes a housing defining a connector mating interface. The housing holds a plurality of contact modules that cooperate to define a connector mounting interface. Each contact module contains signal leads and ground leads arranged in an alternating pattern of individual ground leads and pairs of signal leads positioned side-by-side with respect to a thickness of the contact module. The signal and ground leads have respective mating contacts proximate the mating interface and respective mounting contacts proximate the mounting interface. The mating and mounting contacts within each contact module are arranged in one of first and second contact patterns different from the pattern of the signal and ground leads. The mating and mounting contacts in adjacent contact modules are arranged in respective different ones of the first and second contact patterns.