Patent ID: 8226441

Claim:
A connector, comprising: a housing having a mating face and a mounting face, and a plurality of wafers disposed within the housing; a plurality of ground and signal conductive terminals being supported by the wafers, each of the terminals including a contact portion disposed at one end, a tail portions disposed at an opposite end thereof and a body portion interconnecting the contact and tail portions together, each of the wafers defining a frame that supports a respective set of terminals; a first of the wafers supporting a plurality of ground terminals and at least a second of the wafers supporting a plurality of first signal terminals and a third of the wafers supporting a plurality of second signal terminals, the first and second signal terminals being of same size and the ground terminals being larger than the first and second signal terminals, the first and second wafers being disposed adjacent each other such that the first and second terminals face each other and are broadside coupled together so as to carry differential signals thereacross; the first wafer being disposed adjacent the second wafer, the ground terminal body portions being wider than either of the first and second signal terminal body portions, some of the ground terminal body portions further including pairs of notches formed in edges thereof to facilitate the over molding of the first wafer over the ground terminals.