Patent ID: 9356400
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: H01R,H05K

Claim Text:
1. A plug connector comprising: an insulative housing forming a receiving cavity with two opposite sides in a vertical direction which is compatible with a standard plug connector with twelve contacts on each side; a first and second rows of contacts disposed on the opposite sides while in diagonally symmetrical manner, each of the contacts including a front contacting section for mating with a terminal of a complementary receptacle connector, and a rear connecting section for directly connecting to a corresponding wire; and a metallic latch including two opposite latching arms extending into the receiving cavity at two opposite transverse sides thereof in a transverse direction perpendicular to said vertical direction; wherein each row of contacts is categorized with a pair of grounding contacts at two opposite transverse ends, a pair of power contacts between said pair of grounding contacts, and a specific contact without any high speed differential pair; wherein tails of the contacts are spanned transversely and outwardly to increase a corresponding width of each tail and to enlarge the distance between the tails of the neighboring contacts; wherein the contacts sections of power contacts and grounding contacts from said two rows of contacts are aligned with each other one by one; the connecting sections of the contacts in the first row are categorized with a pair of intimately side by side connecting sections of the grounding contact in the first row and that derived from the second row, and a pair of intimately side by side connecting sections of the power contact in the first row and that derived from the second row to commonly sandwich a connecting section of the CC contact derived from the second row in a transverse direction.