Patent ID: 9263837
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: H01R

Claim Text:
1. An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing defining a receiving space; a plurality of contacts retained in the insulative housing, the contacts comprising a set of first contacts and a set of second contacts, each of the first and second contacts having a contacting portion and a tail portion; a cable electrically connected with the contacts; and a shielding member enclosing on the insulative housing to form a cavity; wherein: the cavity has a smaller length than the receiving space along a transverse direction; the cavity is stacked on one side of the receiving space along an up-to-down direction; the cavity has a lateral boundary coplanar with the receiving space; the second contacts are received in the receiving space; the first contacts are retained in the cavity for transmitting high speed signal; the contacting portions of the second contacts are arranged in an upper row and a lower row and exposed in the receiving space; at least one contacting portion of each row of the second contacts is closer to a front end of the insulative housing than others in a same row; and the second contacts in the upper row comprise, in sequence, a power contact, a negative signal contact, a positive signal contact, and a grounding contact, and wherein the second contacts of the lower row include a power contact, a pair of grounding contacts sharing a common tail portion, and a spare contact.