Patent ID: 9246280
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G02B,H01R,H05K,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A connector system, comprising: a plurality of housings positioned side by side in a ganged arrangement, each of the housing supporting a card slot arranged on a front side of the housing, the housing supporting a plurality of terminals that are positioned on both sides of the card slot; a cage positioned so as to provide including a front face and a plurality of channels extending from the front face, each of the channels configured to direct a mating connector toward the respective card slot, the cage including a thermal plate provided along one of an upper and a lower a surface of the channel; and a thermal conduit extending transversely across the plurality of channels, the thermal conduit configured, in operation, to direct thermal energy from the thermal plate away from an inserted module, wherein each housing provides a stacked configuration that includes at least two vertically separated card slots and the cage includes vertically separate channels for each card slot and the thermal conduit extends between the vertically separated channels.