Patent ID: 6884117

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: a unitary insulative housing including a base and a first shroud extending forwardly from the base, the base defining a plurality of parallel slots therein; a plurality of parallelly arranged circuit boards, each circuit board having a mating portion for mating with a complementary connector and a contact attaching section with conductive traces thereon, the contact attaching sections being at least partially received in corresponding ones of the slots of the housing; plural rows of contacts disposed communicatively around the slots, respectively, the contacts each having a section electrically and mechanically attached to corresponding ones of the conductive traces on the circuit boards; and a metal stiffener attached to the housing and comprising a second shroud vertically spaced from the first shroud, the circuit boards being retained by and between the metal stiffener and the housing, the mating portions of the circuit boards being disposed between the first shroud and the second shroud.