Patent ID: 9368927
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: H01R

Claim Text:
1. A connector mateable with a mating connector along a mating direction, the mating connector including a plurality of mating contacts, the connector being mounted and fixed on an object when used, the connector comprising: a housing; and a plurality of contacts which are held by the housing, each of the contacts having a contact portion, a terminal portion and an intersecting portion, the contact portions being configured to contact with the mating contacts, respectively, the terminal portions being connected to the object when the connector is used, the terminal portion being positioned at a position different from a position of the contact portion in a pitch direction perpendicular to the mating direction, the intersecting portion being positioned between the contact portion and the terminal portion, each of the intersecting portions intersecting both the mating direction and the pitch direction in a plane which is defined by the mating direction and the pitch direction, the contacts including at least a plurality of first contacts and a plurality of second contacts, the contact portions of the first contacts being arranged in one row in the pitch direction, the contact portions of the second contacts being arranged in one row in the pitch direction, the contact portions of the second contacts being positioned apart from the contact portions of the first contacts in a predetermined direction perpendicular to both the mating direction and the pitch direction, the terminal portions of the first contacts and the terminal portions of the second contacts being arranged in one row in the pitch direction, the first contacts including signal contacts which constitute at least one differential pair, and the signal contacts of the differential pair having same shapes as each other.