Patent ID: 8550852

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulating connector housing containing a plurality of slots arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, and a plurality of single ended contacts arranged in said slots, wherein said single ended contacts are arranged in row wise pairs in said slots of said matrix, such that, in a first row, a first pair of said contacts accommodates slots in a first column and a second column of said matrix and, in a second row adjacent, to said first row, a second pair of said contacts accommodates slots in said second column and a third column of said matrix, wherein positions corresponding respectively to the first row and the third column, and to the first column and the second row are free of contact and wherein said electrical connector is a tip and ring connector and wherein each of said pairs of contacts has a tip contact and a ring contact, where the ring contact is configured to form a battery side and the tip contact is configured to form a ground side of an electrical circuit through the tip and ring contacts, where the battery side is configured to carry a voltage of about −48 Volts, and where the connector comprises no shielding contacts between adjacent pairs of the tip and ring contacts.