Electrical connector having contact modules

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9413112-B2
Application number	US-201414454043-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 7, 2014
Priority date	Aug 7, 2014
Publication date	Aug 9, 2016
Grant date	Aug 9, 2016

Abstract

An electrical connector includes a housing and a plurality of contact modules and ground plates held by the housing. Each contact module includes left and right signal wafers stacked next to each other along a stack axis. The signal wafers include electrical terminals held by a dielectric body. The electrical terminals have mounting contacts protruding from the dielectric body at a mounting face of the housing. The electrical terminals of at least one of the signal wafers in each contact module are jogged toward the other signal wafer such that the mounting contacts of each contact module align in a column. Each of the ground plates is disposed along an outer side of a corresponding contact module.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrical connector comprising:
a housing having a mounting face and a mating face;
a plurality of contact modules held by the housing, each contact module including a left signal wafer and a right signal wafer stacked next to each other along a stack axis, the left and right signal wafers extending parallel to a contact module plane, the left and right signal wafers each including electrical terminals held by a dielectric body, the electrical terminal…

Assignees

• Tyco Electronics Corp

Inventors

• Helster David Wayne
• Shields Linda Ellen
• Phillips Michael John
• Champion Bruce Allen
• Patel Sandeep

Classifications

• H01R13/6587

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01R13/6471

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01R13/514

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01R12/727

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01R12/724 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic