Patent ID: 7794278

Claim:
A connector comprising: a plurality of conductors, each conductor comprising a mating contact surface; the plurality of conductors being disposed in a plurality of groups of conductors, each group of conductors being disposed in a corresponding column of a plurality of parallel columns; each group of conductors comprising a plurality of pairs, each pair comprising a first conductor and a second conductor, the mating contact surface of the first conductor being disposed a first distance from a line along the column of the plurality of parallel columns in which the group containing the pair is disposed in a direction perpendicular to the column of the plurality of parallel columns in which the group containing the pair is disposed, and the mating contact surface of the second conductor being disposed a second distance from the line along the column in the direction perpendicular to the column of the plurality of parallel columns in which the group containing the pair is disposed, the first distance being different than the second distance.