Patent ID: 7419400

Claim:
An electrical connector system for electrically interconnecting a pair of contact fields, the system comprising: a substrate comprising a first side and a first contact field on the first side; a plurality of alignment posts extending from the first side of the substrate away from the substrate, each post comprising a collar adjacent the first side of the substrate and an upper portion extending away from the collar; a clamp member having a bottom face to face the substrate and a side extending from the bottom face; a second contact field and a compression mat between the second contact field and the clamp member; the clamp member comprising a plurality of notches, each notch receiving one post to align the second contact field with the first contact field; and each notch comprising a first opening on the side of the clamp member extending into the clamp member and a second opening on the bottom side of the clamp member spaced from the side of the clamp member, the first opening sized to receive the upper portion of the one post but not the post collar, the second opening sized to receive the collar of the one post and facing the post collar when the second contact field is aligned with the first contact field; whereby the collars space the clamp member from the substrate as the posts are received into the first notch openings and the second notch openings permit movement of the clamp member towards the substrate when the second contact field is aligned with the first contact field for forming electrical interconnections between the contact fields.