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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2013
Tyco Electronics Corporation, Berwyn, PA (US);
Michael Joseph Vino, IV, Landisville, PA (US);
Leo Joseph Graham, Hershey, PA (US);
Michael Christopher D'Imperio, Lancaster, PA (US);
David Allison Trout, Lancaster, PA (US);
Wayne Samuel Davis, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Rodney Timothy Yancey, East Petersburg, PA (US);
Jeffrey Byron McClinton, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Tyco Electronics Corporation, Berwyn, PA (US);
Abstract
A leadframe for a contact module includes signal contacts arranged in pairs carrying differential signals. Each pair of signal contacts includes a first signal contact and a second signal contact. Each signal contact has a mating beam at an end thereof configured to be electrically connected to a corresponding header contact of a header assembly. Each mating beam includes a stem and a branch extending from the stem. A first paddle extends from the stem and a second paddle extends from the branch. In an initial, stamped orientation, the mating beams are stamped such that the mating beams of the first and second signal contacts within the same pair of signal contacts are angled non-parallel to one another.