Patent ID: 8202119
Filing Date: 2012-06-19
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing defining a USB (Universal Serial Bus) mating port including a receiving cavity and a mating tongue horizontally extending in the cavity along a front-to-back direction; four standard USB terminals disclosed in the mating port, each of said terminals including a mating section exposed upon the mating tongue for mating with a plug, and a mounting section behind the housing for mounting to a printed circuit board; and a control contact disposed in the housing and beside said standard USB terminals in a transverse direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, and defining a mating portion exposed upon the mating tongue for mating with said plug, and a mounting portion behind the housing for mounting to the printed circuit board; wherein a distance between the mating portion of the control contact and the mating section of a neighboring terminal of the four standard USB terminals is smaller than that between the mounting portion of the control contact and the mounting section of said neighboring terminal in said transverse direction.