Patent ID: 9022809
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A card edge connector for being mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB), comprising: a longitudinal insulative housing comprising a pair of sidewalls and an inserting slot therebetween for receiving a memory module; a plurality of contacts arranged two arrays along a longitudinal direction, respectively being disposed at the both sidewalls while opposite to each other in a width direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, each contact comprising a retaining portion retained in the insulative housing, a contacting portion extending to the inserting slot from one end of the retaining portion and a soldering tail extending outwards from another end of the retaining portion for being soldered to the PCB; and wherein the retaining portion of each array contact are coplanar to each other and disposed at a vertical plane in the longitudinal direction, while the soldering tails of each array contact are arranged at least three tail lines.