Patent ID: 7497709

Claim:
An electrical connector for high-speed transmission, comprising: an insulated housing defining a mating portion, said mating portion having a bottom wall, an up wall and a pair of side walls interconnecting with the bottom and the up walls to form a receiving space; a plurality of terminals separated into two distinct groups and received in the bottom wall of the insulated housing and partially exposed into the receiving space; an additional pair of terminals received in the up wall of the insulated housing; and a recess portion defined in the up wall and arranged above the additional pair of terminals to have the up wall partially divided into an upper piece and a lower piece discrete from one another; a metal bar located in the recess portion and sandwiched between the upper piece and the lower piece; and wherein the pair of terminals and the metal bar are arranged and configured such that the pair of terminals are capable of moving to contact the metal bar when the electrical connector mate with a complementary connector and the pair of terminals farther disengage from the metal bar when the electrical connector unmates from the complementary connector and wherein the metal bar includes a pair of wing portions and a transition portions connecting with the pair of wing portions, and wherein the pair of wing portions are received in the recess portion in the up wall of the insulated housing.