Patent ID: 6945795
Filing Date: 2005-09-20
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An interconnect system for receiving quad connectors wherein each quad connector has a quad insulator with four bores that each holds a quad contact with a mating front end, the system including a header assembly that includes groups of four contact pins each group of the pins have pin middle portions fixed in an insulative plate, pin rear ends that project rearward of said insulative plate and that mate with the four quad contacts, and pin front ends that are mateable to signal traces on a circuit board that lies forward of the insulative plate and that has at least one ground trace, wherein the connector system includes a housing formed of conductive material with a plurality of laterally-spaced quad-holding passages, each of the laterally-spaced passages having a metal shell for holding one of said quad connectors and providing a grounded shield around the quad connector, wherein: said housing passages have metal passage walls that are electrically connected together; and including at least one grounding device that has a rear device part electrically connected to metal of said housing, said grounding device part being laterally spaced from said quad-holding passages, said grounding device having a middle device part lying in said insulative plate and a front device part that is connectable to the ground trace of said circuit board.