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Abstract

A filtered electrical device 10 for being secured externally to an electrical article such as an electrical connector and electrically engageable to circuit paths thereof comprises a plurality of contact members 12, a housing member 40 having a plurality of filter receiving apertures 48 therein, a plurality of filter receiving apertures 48 therein, a plurality of filter members 54 disposed in the apertures 48 and electrically connected to the contact members 12 and a ground means. The contact members 12 have first and second contact portions 14, 24, the first contact portions 14 being secured in the housing 40 and engageable with corresponding contact sections of the elctrical article to which the filtering device 10 is secured. The second contact portions 24 are exposed along a bottom surface 50, of respective apertures 48 and are paired with and spaced from third contact portions 30 which are also exposed along a bottom apertures surface 50. Ground means include a bus means 34 secured in the housing 40 and extending outwardly from third contact sections 30. Filter members 54 are electrically engaged to respective pairs of second and third contact portions 14, 24. The device 10 can be manufactured in a continuous form by stamping a series of contact means in a strip 58 of metal, insert molding housing member 40 are desired length around a plurality of the contact means 70 to form a series of severable lead frames 60, placing filter members 54 in the filter receiving apertures 48, and severing individual devices 10. Alternatively, the strip of devices 10 can be stored in reel form until they are to be used.

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