Electrical connector including a housing that holds parallel circuit boards

Abstract

An electrical connector includes a housing (12) including a front housing portion (20) having a front wall (21) and a plurality of parallel apertures (22) extending through the front wall. A plurality of circuit boards (13) extend through respective ones of the apertures. Each of the circuit boards has a mating edge (42), and the mating edges are aligned forwardly of the front wall for connection with a mating electrical connector. The housing includes a separate organizer (30) attached to the front housing portion. The organizer has a plurality of slots (33) that are spaced-apart in correspondence with the plurality of apertures, and the circuit boards have mounting edges that are received in respective ones of the slots. The front housing portion comprises upper and lower grooved shrouds extending forwardly from the front wall. The circuit boards comprise a notch in the top edge which receives a corresponding projection. The front housing portion and the organizer are assembled by a post interference fitted in a hole.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.