Patent ID: 7850489

Claim:
An electrical connector assembly comprising: an insulative carrier; a plurality of termination devices supported in the insulative carrier, each termination device comprising: an electrically conductive outer shield element having a front end and a back end, the shield element having a latch member extending therefrom and a plurality of termination legs extending from the back end, wherein the termination legs extend from the back end such as to interdigitate with termination legs of a shield element of an adjacent termination device, and wherein the termination legs comprise one or both of surface-mount termination legs and through-hole termination legs; an insulator disposed within the shield element; and a socket contact supported within and electrically isolated from the shield element by the insulator, the socket contact configured for making electrical connections through the front end and back end of the shield element and having a termination end extending beyond the back end of the shield element, wherein the insulative carrier includes a plurality of carrier walls defining an array of apertures shaped to receive the plurality of termination devices.