Patent ID: 8647146

Claim:
An electrical assembly for a connector comprising: an insert having a wire end and a mating end, the insert having a front mounting surface positioned proximate to the wire end of the insert and a rear mounting surface positioned distally from the wire end of the insert, the rear mounting surface vertically displaced from the front mounting surface with respect to a bottom of the insert, wire terminals coupled to the front mounting surface and the rear mounting surface; signal traces extending from the wire end of the insert to the mating end of the insert, each of the signal traces coupled to one of the wire terminals, the signal traces including front signal traces and rear signal traces; and an electro-mechanical compensation positioned between the wire end and the mating end of the insert, the electro-mechanical compensation positioned between the front signal traces and the rear signal traces, the electro-mechanical compensation comprising a front conductive pathway joined to a front post and a rear conductive pathway joined to a rear post, the front post joined to one of the front signal traces and the rear post joined to one of the rear signal traces, the front conductive pathway having interdigital fingers that extend toward the rear conductive pathway, the rear conductive pathway having interdigital fingers that extend toward the front conductive pathway, the interdigital fingers of the front conductive pathway arranged in an alternating pattern with respect to the interdigital fingers of the rear conductive pathways, wherein the front and rear conductive pathways are capacitively coupled by the interdigital fingers of the front and rear conductive pathways.