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US 2013/0157514 A1Published application
Dual stacked connector
AssigneeMolex Incorporated
InventorJerry A. Long
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Abstract
A connector has a housing and two edge card-receiving slots disposed in a stacked arrangement on a first face of the housing. The housing supports a plurality of wafers, each wafer supporting a plurality of terminals and including two grooves, the grooves aligned with the terminals supported by the wafer. The housing may be positioned in a cage that includes receptacles on a front face of the cage. A light pipe may extend toward the front face of the cage.
Claims6
An electrical connector, comprising:
- an insulative housing, the housing including a first face, the first face including first and second card-receiving slots spaced apart thereon, the first and second card-receiving slots being sized to receive mating ends of the mating portions of a component that is mateable with the connector;
- a set of frames supported by the insulative housing, each frame of the set of frames including at least four grooves;
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- four terminals supported by each frame, two of the four terminals extending into the first card-receiving slot and the other two of the four terminals extending into the second card receiving slot, wherein the four grooves in each of the frames are correspondingly aligned with the four terminals and wherein at least two of the grooves respectively expose a substantial portion of corresponding terminals to air and each the at least two grooves have a first portion that extends in a direction aligned with the card slots and a second portion that extends at an angle to the first portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.