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(11) EP 0 476 883 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
14.10.1992 Bulletin 1992/42

(43) Date of publication A2:
25.03.1992 Bulletin 1992/13

(21) Application number: 91308042.0

(22) Date of filing: 30.08.1991
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: H01R 13/658, H01R 23/70
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB IT NL

(30) Priority: 21.09.1990 US 586360

(71) Applicant: THE WHITAKER CORPORATION
Wilmington, Delaware 19808 (US)

(72) Inventors:
  • Brown, Jeffrey Joe
    Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110 (US)
  • Hillbish, Warren Christian
    Hummelstown, Pennsylvania 17036 (US)
  • Hnatuck, Robert James
    Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055 (US)
  • Kaufman, John Wilson
    Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033 (US)
  • Rubendall, Douglas Charles
    Millersburg, Pennsylvania 17061 (US)
  • Zwieg, Grover Anthony
    Wisconsin 53066 (US)

(74) Representative: Warren, Keith Stanley et al
BARON & WARREN 18 South End Kensington
London W8 5BU
London W8 5BU (GB)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Electrical connector assembly


    (57) An electrical connector assembly 10 includes a receptacle member (12) and a pin header (60). The receptacle member (12) has a housing (14) including an inner body portion (22) and two opposed outer side walls 24, which together define elongate cavities (36) between inner body section (22) and respective outer side walls (24); and a plurality of first contact terminal members (40) disposed in inner body portion (22) and a plurality of second contact terminal members (46) disposed in the elongate cavities (36). The pin header (60) includes a housing member (62) having a plurality of third electrical contact terminal members (78) disposed therein and adapted to mate with the first terminal members and at least one ground bus member (92) disposed continuously along at least one side of pin header housing (62), the bus member (92) being adapted to be received in one of the respective elongate cavities (36) of receptacle member (12) and electrically engage the second terminal members (46) therein, when the receptacle member (12) and pin header (60) are mated.









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