Patent ID: 11916341
Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. An electrical connector comprising:
a housing having a mating interface configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector, the housing including a contact organizer having signal contact openings and ground shield openings, the housing including a commoning member at the mating interface, the commoning member being conductive and providing electrical shielding at the mating interface, the commoning member having openings aligned with the ground shield openings; and
wafer assemblies coupled to the housing and arranged in a wafer stack, each wafer assembly including a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, and a ground frame coupled to the wafer body to provide electrical shielding for the leadframe;
each leadframe having signal contacts extending between mating ends and mounting ends, the signal contacts having main bodies between the mating ends and the mounting ends, the main bodies extending through the wafer bodies, the mounting ends extending from the wafer body for termination to a circuit board, the mating ends extending from the wafer body into corresponding signal contact openings of the contact organizer, the mating ends being presented at the mating interface of the housing for mating with mating signal contacts of the mating electrical connector, the mating ends being twisted 45° relative to the main bodies to define twisted mating interfaces configured to be mated with the mating signal contacts of the mating electrical connector;
each ground frame having a ground plate coupled to the wafer body and ground shields extending forward from the ground plate, the ground shields being received in corresponding ground shield openings of the contact organizer and extending into the corresponding opening in the commoning member, the ground shields being electrically connected to the commoning member such that each of the ground shields are electrically commoned by the commoning member, the ground shields extending along the mating ends of the corresponding signal contacts to provide shielding for the mating ends along the mating interfaces, the ground shields being twisted 45° relative to the ground plate to define twisted shield zones along the mating ends of the signal contacts.