Patent ID: 9570861
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H01R,H05K

Claim:
1. An electrical connector comprising: a housing having a cavity; a wafer stack received in the cavity, the wafer stack comprising a plurality of electrical wafers arranged parallel to each other within the cavity, each wafer including a dielectric body and a leadframe having plural conductors held in the dielectric body, the conductors having terminating contacts and mating contacts with leads therebetween, the terminating contacts being both horizontally staged and vertically staged and exposed in a pocket of the dielectric body for electrical termination, the mating contacts being exposed for electrical connection; and a flex harness comprising a plurality of flexible printed circuit boards (FPCBs), the FPCBs being electrically connected to corresponding wafers, each FPCB having a stepped mating interface with conductors along the stepped mating interface configured to be electrically connected to corresponding terminating contacts; wherein the pocket has a plurality of steps, the terminating contacts being arranged along corresponding steps and being exposed along the steps for electrical termination to be connected to corresponding conductors of the plurality of flexible printed circuit boards.