Patent ID: 9281630
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: H01R

Claim Text:
1. An electrical connector comprising: a housing configured to be coupled to a mating connector, the housing having signal contact openings and ground shield openings therethrough; signal contacts held in the signal contact openings, the signal contacts arranged in an array of quad groups, each quad group having a set of four contacts arranged in column pairs and row pairs, the signal contacts of each quad group configured to carry relational signals with each other signal contact in the quad group, each signal contact having a mating end configured to electrically couple to a corresponding signal contact of the mating connector; and ground shields held in corresponding ground shield openings, the ground shields having walls surrounding a corresponding quad group of signal contacts and providing electrical shielding from adjacent quad groups of signal contacts, the ground shields having mating ends for mating with corresponding ground contacts of the mating connector.