Patent ID: 6857906

Claim:
A connector for mounting on a circuit board, the connector including an insulative frame and two laterally-spaced columns of contacts mounted on said insulative frame, the contacts in each column being spaced apart along a longitudinal direction by a predetermined spacing, each contact comprising a metal strip that has a centerline, each metal strip forming an upper contact portion with the centerline thereof lying in a vertical plane and each contact forming a lower contact portion lying below said upper contact portion, said lower contact portion having a termination end for engaging a conductive trace on the circuit board, said contacts being arranged in pairs with one contact of each pair lying in one of said columns and with the other contact of each pair lying in a different one of said columns, upper contact portions of each pair of contacts being laterally spaced apart in a lateral direction, said lateral direction being perpendicular to said longitudinal direction, and the upper contact portions of the contacts of each pair of contacts lying in the same vertical plane, wherein: the lower contact portion of each of said contacts has a deflectable strip section with a centerline that lies in a first vertical plane and the upper contact portion of the same contact lies in a second vertical plane that is angled a plurality of degrees from the first vertical plane of the same contact, to position the termination end of the same contact so it is longitudinally spaced from the first vertical plane of the same contact by half of said predetermined spacing, and the termination ends of said contacts in said two columns all lie approximately in a single longitudinally-extending row.