Patent ID: 6217392
Filing Date: 2001-04-17
Classification: H01R,Y10S

Abstract:
An electrical connector comprising:an insulative housing defining a receiving space therein;a plurality of terminals assembled in the receiving space, said terminals being successively labeled from one to eight, each terminal including a contacting portion at one end for engaging with a mating connector, a solder tail at an opposite end for soldering to a printed circuit board, and a curving portion extending between the contacting portion and the solder tail, every two adjacent solder tails being separated with a distance from each other which is larger than a second distance defined between two adjacent contacting portions;wherein the curving portions of third and sixth terminals are located at a plane different from a plane at which curving portions of the remaining terminals are located, and wherein the curving portions of the first, second, third, sixth, seventh and eighth terminals are bent laterally away from a middle line of the terminals, a distance between the curving portions of the third and fourth terminals and between the curving portions of the fifth and sixth terminals is larger than a distance between any neighboring two of the curving portions of the remaining terminals.