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

Claim 18:
19. The communication system of claim 17, wherein the first housing includes a first contact organizer having signal contact openings and ground shield openings and a first commoning member having openings aligned with the ground shield openings of the first contact organizer, the first commoning member being conductive and providing electrical shielding at the mating interface, and wherein the second housing includes a second contact organizer having signal contact openings and ground shield openings and a second commoning member having openings aligned with the ground shield openings of the second contact organizer, the second commoning member being conductive and providing electrical shielding at the mating interface;
wherein the openings of the second commoning member are aligned with the openings of the first commoning member to form mated openings, each mated opening receive a pair of the first signal contacts and a pair of the second signal contacts mated with the pair of the first signal contacts, each mated opening receiving the first ground shield corresponding with the pair of the first signal contacts and the second ground shield corresponding with the pair of the second signal contacts, the first and second ground shields being electrically connected to both the first and second commoning members within the corresponding mated opening.