Patent ID: 8535069
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector assembly, comprising: a receptacle connector comprising: a connector housing defining two parallel mating slots vertically spaced from each other; and a plurality of terminal wafers juxtaposedly loaded in the connector housing, each terminal wafer comprising an upper pair of contacting portions and a lower pair of contacting portions, both of the upper and lower pairs of contact portions accessible from the mating slots, respectively; each of said terminal wafers further defining a ground contact with a contacting portion disposed between the upper pair and lower pair of the contacting portions; the plurality of terminal wafers comprising pairs of differential signal wafers and ground wafers which are arranged in an alternating sequence in the connecting housing; and a plug connector intended to mate with the receptacle connector, the plug connector comprising two card edges intended to be inserted in the mating slots respectively and a ground plate with a row of contacting pin vertically spaced between said two card edges; the contacting pins of the ground plate touch with pairs of ground contacts formed with two adjacent ground contacts in two adjacent terminal wafers, wherein the contacting portions of said two adjacent ground contact slant towards each other so as to construct a mating pair of the ground contacts to clamp the contacting pins of the ground plate.