Patent ID: 8052431
Filing Date: 2011-11-08
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector for being mounted on a printed circuit board, comprising: an insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue potion extending forwardly from the base portion, the base portion having a mounting surface for being mounted to the printed circuit board upwardly, and a lower surface opposite to the mounting surface, the tongue portion having an upper side face, and a lower side face opposite to the upper side face, the mounting surface and the upper side face essentially lied in a first planar surface; and a plurality of contacts attached to the insulative housing and having contact portions exposed upon the upper side face of the tongue portion, and tail portions extending backwardly and beyond the insulative housing and adapted for being soldered onto the printed circuit board; wherein the electrical connector is a type USB 3.0 plug electrical connector, the contacts include a set of first contacts with elastic contact portions, and a set of second contacts with nonelastic contact portions, the first contacts include two pairs of differential contacts, and a grounding contact disposed between each pair of the differential contacts and having two spaced apart tail portions, the second contacts include a grounding contact, a power contact and a pair of differential contacts disposed between the grounding contact and the power contact, the tail portions of the first and the second contacts are arranged in one row in the transverse direction, a tail portion of the grounding contact of the second contacts and another tail portion of the power contact are arranged at two outermost sides of the row, two tail portions of the pair of differential contacts of the second contacts are arranged between two tail portions of the grounding contacts of the first contacts, the tail portions of the first contacts and the second contacts are arranged in a planar surface that is substantially coplanar with the mounting surface.