Patent ID: 11901671
Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A contact assembly for an electrical connector comprising:
an array of contacts including signal contacts and ground contacts, the ground contacts interspersed with the signal contacts to provide electrical shielding between corresponding signal contacts;
each signal contact including a signal contact body having a first side, a second side opposite the first side, a first edge between the first and second sides, and a second edge between the first and second sides opposite the first edge, the signal contact body including a signal mating end and a signal terminating end;
each signal contact including a mating ball formed at the signal mating end of the signal contact body, the mating ball being generally spherical shaped;
wherein the mating ball and the signal contact body are a homogeneous structure.