Patent ID: 8033868
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: H01R,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A standing type electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing associated with a metallic shell commonly defining an upward mating face and a downward mounting face oblique to each other; a mating port defined in the housing intimately below the mating face; a mating tongue exposed in said mating port surrounded by the shell; at least one contact module assembled within the housing and including an insulator insert molded with a plurality of contacts, each of said contacts defining a contact section extending along a first direction and exposed outside of the insulator and assembled onto the mating tongue under condition that the contacting sections of said contacts are coplanar with one another, and a tail section extending along a second direction in a rear portion of the housing and exposed outside of the mounting face; said first direction is oblique to said second direction; wherein said insulator includes spaced opposite front and rear pieces, and the rear piece includes two parts staked with each other and respectively retaining corresponding tail sections in at least two different rows.