Electrical connectors – Electromagnetic or electrostatic shield – Multi-part shield body
Reexamination Certificate
2005-02-08
2005-02-08
Zarroli, Michael C. (Department: 2839)
Electrical connectors
Electromagnetic or electrostatic shield
Multi-part shield body
C439S246000, C439S439000, C439S625000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06851980
ABSTRACT:
A connector assembly is suitable for connecting circuit boards together. The connector assembly includes a series of ground and signal terminal sets assembled in composite wafers that may be held within a housing. The ground terminals include pairs of flat contact blades that are aligned together in abutting contact to form a column of ground contacts blades of double width, and the signal terminals are arranged in sets on opposite sides of the ground terminal blades and the signal terminals have general L-shapes that are arranged in sets of two pairs of contacts to form a cruciform pattern. One of the two connectors has solid L-shaped contacts, while the other of the two connectors has a pair of split contact arms that lie and extend in two different planes project from an associated terminal body in a manner so as to mate with the contact portions of the solid L-shaped contacts. The use of L-shaped contacts provides a redundant contact mating arrangement.
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Avery Hazelton P.
Fromm Galen F.
McGowan Daniel B.
Nelson Richard A.
Sweeney Kathleen A.
Molex Incorporated
Paulius Thomas D.
Zarroli Michael C.
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