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

Claim 14:
15. An electrical connector comprising:
a housing having a cavity, the housing having a card slot at a mating end of the housing, the card slot configured to receive a card edge of a circuit card; and
a contact assembly received in the cavity, the contact assembly including 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, the mating ball including a mating interface configured to engage a corresponding contact pad on a surface of the circuit card, wherein the mating ball and the signal contact body are a homogeneous structure.