Patent ID: 7074047

Claim:
A connector comprising: a signal array having a plurality of shielded conductors with opposite ends, each shielded conductor including an axial conductive element and an outer conductive element completely surrounding the axial conductive element; the plurality of shielded conductors arranged in a body structure so that the inner and outer conductive elements are electrically presented at a contact face surface of the body structure in a generally co-planar arrangement wherein the generally co-planar arrangement is generally co-planar with the contact face surface of the body structure a compressible interface element positioned at the contact face surface of the body structure of the signal array, the interface element including a layer of insulating material having a plurality of conductive elements extending through the insulating material layer; the compressible interface element, when compressed between the contact face surface of the body structure and a signal bearing component, maintaining, through the interface element, the geometric arrangements of the axial conductive elements and the completely surrounding outer conductive elements of the shielded conductors presented at the contact face surface of the body structure, to pass signals with the signal bearing component.