Patent ID: 7384311

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: a housing; and a contact module mounted in said housing, said contact module comprising a mating edge and a mounting edge, and a lead frame having terminals extending between said mating and mounting edges, said terminals being arranged as transmission units, each said transmission unit including a pair of signal terminals and at least one adjacent ground terminal, said contact module having an insulated body with a side surface, said insulated body having a first slot open from said side surface and extending across at least one of said transmission units to expose the terminals of said at least one transmission unit, wherein each said terminal exposed by said first slot has a respective exposed portion in said first slot, and each said exposed portion has an equal length, and wherein said insulated body has a second slot open from said side surface and extending across said at least one transmission unit to expose the terminals of said at least one transmission unit, wherein said second slot exposes the same terminals as said first slot.