Patent ID: 7867045

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: a housing having a mating face configured to engage a mating connector; conductors extending through the housing, wherein the conductors form an array of conductors; socket members projecting outwardly from the mating face, each of said socket members being electrically coupled to one of the conductors and comprising a shaft that projects beyond the mating face, the shaft configured to be inserted into a cavity of the mating connector, the shaft having an inner surface that defines a passage that is configured to receive an associated mating contact held within the cavity for establishing an electrical connection between the mating contact and the inner surface of the shaft; and contact modules having mating edges that interface with the housing and mounting edges that are configured to be mounted to an electrical component, each of said contact modules including a plurality of the conductors from the array of conductors, the conductors of each of said contact modules extending between mounting and mating tails, the mounting tails projecting from the mounting edge and the mating tails projecting from the mating edge and engaging corresponding socket members.