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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2014
Tyco Electronics Corporation, Berwyn, PA (US);
Matthew Jeffrey Sypolt, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Timothy Robert Minnick, Enola, PA (US);
Margaret Mahoney Fernandes, West Chester, PA (US);
Tyco Electronics Corporation, Berwyn, PA (US);
Abstract
Electrical connector including a connector housing having a front side that faces along a mating axis and contact passages that open to the front side. The contact passages are configured to receive corresponding ground shields of a system connector during a mating operation. The electrical connector also includes signal contacts that are coupled to the connector housing and configured to engage corresponding contacts of the system connector. The electrical connector also includes a grounding lattice that is held by the connector housing. The grounding lattice includes a support frame and lattice springs that are interconnected by the support frame. The support frame extends generally transverse to the mating axis. The lattice springs are positioned to engage the ground shields of the system connector as the ground shields are inserted into the corresponding contact passages of the connector housing.