Patent ID: 8961229
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: H01R,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector adapted to be mounted onto a printed circuit board (PCB), comprising a plurality of wafers stacked in a transverse direction, each wafer comprising: a conductive board having a first face and an opposite second face perpendicular to the transverse direction, the first face defining a plurality of slots therein; and a plurality of contact modules each received in one of the slots, each contact module comprising an insulating holder and a pair of contacts extending in a signal path, each of said contacts having a contacting portion, a foot portion, and an intermediate portion connecting the contacting portion and the foot portion, the intermediate portions of the contacts in the pair being parallelly fixed in the insulating holder and kept isolated from each other; wherein each pair of contacts are punched from a metal plate and kept in a planar surface with near edges facing to each other and far edges backing away from each other, the far edges of the intermediate portions embedded in the insulating holder and the near edges of the intermediate portions exposed to air in part length of the signal path.