Patent ID: 6015304
Filing Date: 2000-01-18
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
In an electrical connector having an elongated housing with at least one housing wall formed from an electrically insulative material and a plurality of electrically conductive terminals mounted on the connector housing, the conductive terminals having solder tail portions extending out of and away from said connector housing along an extent of said housing wall, said solder tail portions being spaced apart from each other in a first predetermined spacing, said connector further having an electrically conductive grounding plate mounted on outside of said connector housing and extending along said housing wall extent, the improvement, comprising:at least one primary grounding terminal integrally formed in said grounding plate at the level of said conductive terminal solder tail portions, and said conductive terminal solder tail portions being arranged in at least two discrete groups spaced apart from each other in a second predetermined spacing to define a grounding space that separates said two discrete groups of conductive terminal solder tail portions, the grounding space receiving said primary grounding terminal therein.