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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2010
John Eugene Westman, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Brian Keith Mcmaster, Mechanicsburg, PA (US);
Michael Frank Cina, Elizabethtown, PA (US);
John Eugene Westman, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Brian Keith McMaster, Mechanicsburg, PA (US);
Michael Frank Cina, Elizabethtown, PA (US);
Tyco Electronics Corporation, Berwyn, PA (US);
Abstract
A receptacle connector includes contacts having posts and contact tails extending from the posts. The contact tails are configured to be mounted to a circuit board. The contacts have mating sections extending from the posts. The mating sections are configured for mating with a mating connector. The contacts define signal contacts and ground contacts with the signal contacts arranged in pairs and the pairs of signal contacts being separated by at least one ground contact. The receptacle connector also includes a housing holding the signal and ground contacts in parallel at a predetermined pitch. The housing has a front and a rear with a cavity at the front being configured to receive the mating connector. The housing has walls defining channels that receive the signal and ground contacts. The channels holding the signal contacts have air pockets between the signal contacts such that the amount of air between adjacent signal contacts is greater than the amount of air between signal contacts and adjacent ground contacts.