Patent ID: 7331802
Filing Date: 2008-02-19
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector assembly including a pair of connectors configured to be electrically connected to one another from opposite sides of a circuit board, said electrical connector assembly comprising: first and second connector housings, each having a mating face and a mounting face, said mounting faces being configured to be electrically connected to one another from opposite sides of the circuit board in line with one another along a longitudinal axis; and signal and ground contacts held in said connector housings, each said signal contact and ground contact including a mating end and a mounting end, each of said connector housings including a common pattern of contact cavities arranged in rows, said signal and ground contacts being held in said contact cavities such that each row of contact cavities holds both signal and ground contacts with said mounting ends extending from said mounting faces of said connector housings, wherein said signal and ground contacts are disposed in a first arrangement at said mating face, said first arrangement including rows of contacts wherein said mating ends of signal and ground contacts in each said row of contacts are arranged in a common plane, and wherein said mounting ends of said signal and ground contacts are disposed in a second arrangement at said mounting face, said second arrangement including rows of contacts wherein said mounting ends of said signal contacts are out of a plane defined by said mounting ends of said ground contacts, and wherein said mounting end of each said signal contact in said first connector housing is aligned with a corresponding mounting end of a signal contact in said second connector housing when said first and second connector housings are mounted to opposite sides of the circuit board and are angularly offset at a non-zero angle about said longitudinal axis with respect to one another.