Patent ID: 7758385

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: a housing having a mating face and a mounting face; and a plurality of signal contacts held by the housing, the signal contacts being arranged in differential pairs to form signal contact pairs, each signal contact having a body, a contact pin extending from one end of the body along a pin axis, and a contact tail extending from an opposite end of the body, the body and contact tail extending along a contact plane, the contact pin including a transition section that off-sets the contact pin out of the contact plane in a first lateral direction, and the contact tail lying in the contact plane and being off-set in a transverse direction with respect to the pin axis; a ground contact has a ground contact body, a ground contact pin and a ground contact tail being generally co-planar with one another, the ground contact tail extending from the ground contact body in an opposite direction as the ground contact pin and being off-set with respect to a ground pin axis.