Claims
- 1. An electrical connector body, comprising:a base; a plurality of apertures in said base for securing contacts to said base; a plurality of ground shields residing within said base; ground pins and signal pins disposed within corresponding apertures in said base to form a header connector; and ground shields disposed within corresponding apertures in the base, adjacent ones of the ground shields being disposed in opposite orientations, said ground pins each having a fin for engaging said ground shield.
- 2. An electrical connector body, comprising:a base; a plurality of apertures in said base for securing contacts to said base; a plurality of ground shields residing within said base; ground pins and signal pins disposed within corresponding apertures in said base to form a header connector; and ground shields disposed within corresponding apertures in the base, adjacent ones of the ground shields being disposed in opposite orientations, one of said ground pins engaging adjacent ground shields, each of said adjacent ground shields having a projection extending towards the other adjacent ground shield, and the projection being a protuberance on a surface of said ground shield.
- 3. An electrical connector body, comprising:a base; a plurality of apertures in said base for securing contacts to said base; and a plurality of generally L-shaped first ground shields residing within said base; adjacent ones of the first ground shields being disposed in opposite orientations, the electrical connector body further comprising a plurality of generally planar second, intermediate ground shields, each of said second, intermediate ground shields disposed between and in electrical contact with said adjacent ones of the first ground shields.
- 4. A header, comprising:a body; a plurality of signal pins extending from said body; and a plurality of generally L-shaped ground shields within said body, each ground shield associated with a corresponding one of said signal pins, said signal pins being arranged in columns, and said ground shields being arranged in columns, and two immediately adjacent columns of said signal pins being flanked on both sides by two immediately adjacent columns of said ground shields.
- 5. A header, comprising:a body; a plurality of signal pins extending from said body; a plurality of generally L-shaped ground shields within said body, each sound shield associated with a corresponding one of said signal pins; and ground pins extending through said body, each ground pin corresponding to at least one of said ground shields, the header further comprising a plurality of intermediate ground shields within said body, each intermediate ground shield contacting a corresponding one of said ground shields and a corresponding one of said ground pins to connect said ground pin to said ground shield.
- 6. A header, comprising:a body; a plurality of signal pins extending from said body; a plurality of generally L-shaped ground shields within said body, each ground shield associated with a corresponding one of said signal pins; and ground pins extending through said body, each ground pin corresponding to at least one of said ground shields and at least some of said ground pins corresponding to two ground shields, wherein said ground pins are interstitially arranged relative to said signal pins.
- 7. A header, comprising:a body; a plurality of ground shields in said body; a plurality of receiving areas located between adjacent ground shields; a plurality of ground pins extending through said body, each having a longitudinal portion generally offset from said receiving area; and a plurality of conductive elements, each disposed within said receiving area for connecting a corresponding one of said ground pins to a corresponding one of said ground shields.
- 8. The header as recited in claim 7, wherein said conductive element is a part of said ground pin extending transverse to said longitudinal portion.
- 9. The header as recited in claim 7, wherein said conductive element is an intermediate ground shield.
- 10. A header system mountable to a circuit substrate having first and second opposed sides, comprising:a first header positionable on said first side of said circuit substrate and including: a body; a plurality of ground shields in said body; and a plurality of apertures in said body; and a second header positionable on said second side of said circuit substrate and including: a body; a plurality of ground shields in said body; a plurality of intermediate ground shields in said body, each corresponding to and contacting at least one of said ground shields; and a plurality of apertures in said body; and a plurality of ground pins, each extending through a corresponding one of said apertures in said first and second header bodies and contacting at least one of said ground shields in said first header and one of said intermediate ground shields in said second header and adapted to pass through said circuit substrate.
- 11. The header system as recited in claim 10, further comprising signal pins, each extending through corresponding through a corresponding one of said apertures in said first and second header bodies.
- 12. The header system as recited in claim 11, wherein said signal pins are arranged in columns, said ground shields are arranged in columns and said columns of said ground shields are positioned between adjacent columns of said signal pins.
- 13. The header system as recited in claim 12, wherein two columns of signal pins flank each side of two columns of ground shields.
- 14. The header system as recited in claim 13, wherein said ground pins each comprise:a longitudinally extending section for contacting said intermediate ground shield in said second header; and a transverse section extending from said longitudinally extending section for contacting said ground shield in said first header.
- 15. A differential pair header connector, comprising:a housing; a plurality of signal contacts passing through the housing, the signal contacts arranged in columns, wherein pairs of columns are arranged immediately adjacently to define differential pairs of signal contacts; a plurality of ground shields in the housing and located between adjacent columns of the signal contacts, each shield comprising: a first section extending along the adjacent columns of signal contacts to shield the adjacent columns of contacts; and a second section extending between adjacent signal contacts within one of the columns of contacts to shield the adjacent signal contacts; and a plurality of ground contacts passing through the housing, each ground contact engaging one of the ground shields.
- 16. The header of claim 15 wherein at least one column of ground shields is located between adjacent rows of contacts.
- 17. The header of claim 16 wherein the at least one column of ground shields comprises two columns of ground shields.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application contains subject matter related to the subject matter disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/942,084, filed Oct. 1, 1997, and now abandoned and entitled CONNECTOR FOR ELECTRICAL ISOLATION IN A CONDENSED AREA; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/045,660, filed Mar. 20, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,227,882 and entitled CONNECTOR FOR ELECTRICAL ISOLATION IN A CONDENSED AREA; and U.S. patent application No. Ser. 09/295,504, filed Apr. 21, 1999 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,116,926, and entitled CONNECTOR FOR ELECTRICAL ISOLATION IN A CONDENSED AREA, each of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
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