Patent ID: 9257778
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: H01R

Claim Text:
1. An electrical connector configured to be mated to a complementary electrical connector along a first direction, the electrical connector comprising: an electrically insulative connector housing including a divider wall and a plurality of ribs that project out from the divider wall, such that adjacent ones of the ribs define a plurality of pockets; a plurality of signal contacts supported by the connector housing, each of the plurality of signal contacts defining a mounting end and a receptacle mating end, each receptacle mating end defining a tip that defines a concave surface and a convex surface opposite the concave surface; and a plurality of ground contacts including a plurality of ground mounting ends and a plurality of ground mating ends; wherein 1) the signal contacts are arranged in at least first and second linear arrays, the second linear array disposed immediately adjacent the first linear array along a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, such that the concave surfaces of the signal contacts of the first linear array face the concave surfaces of the signal contacts of the second linear array, 2) immediately adjacent signal contacts along each of the linear arrays defines respective differential signal pairs of adjacent ones of the signal contacts, the signal contacts of each of the differential signal pairs having respective receptacle mating ends, and each linear array includes one of the ground mating ends disposed between immediately adjacent ones of the respective differential signal pairs, 3) the ground mating ends are taller than each of the respective receptacle mating ends of the respective differential signal pairs along a third direction that is perpendicular to each of the first and second directions, 4) each of the pockets is sized to receive only a single one of a group that includes the receptacle mating ends and the ground mating ends, and 5) ones of the ground mating ends of the first linear array are offset along the third direction with respect to all of the ground mating ends of the second linear array.