Patent ID: 8951050
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A connector for connecting a connection partner with a board, the connector comprising a plurality of contact pairs having respective terminal ends, a plurality of ground contacts having respective terminal ends, and an insulating housing holding the contact pairs and the ground contacts and arranging the contact pairs and the ground contacts in a first direction, wherein the connector has a first connection side for connection to the connection partner and a second connection side for connection to the board, the first connection side and the second connection side being spaced from each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein, on the first connection side, the ground contacts and contacts of the contact pairs are arranged in one row in the first direction to form a contact array and the ground contacts are arranged between the contact pairs, respectively, and wherein, on the second connection side, the respective terminal ends of the ground contacts are arranged in a first row so as to be spaced apart from each other in the first direction, while the respective terminal ends of a first contact pair of the contact pairs arranged on a first side of a ground contact of the ground contacts on the first connection side is arranged in a second row which is located on a first side of the first row in the second direction and the respective terminal ends of a second contact pair of the contact pairs arranged on a second side of the ground contact on the first connection side is arranged in a third row which is located on a second side of the first row opposite the first side in the second direction, the contacts of the contact pairs being displaced from the ground contacts in the first direction.