Patent ID: 8303344

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulative body comprising a wide tongue and a narrow tongue side by side arranged with each other, the wide tongue and the narrow tongue being split by a gap therebetween along a horizontal direction; a metallic shell comprising a front pocket, the front pocket defining a large receiving cavity enclosing the wide tongue, a small receiving cavity enclosing the narrow tongue, and a non-circumferentially enclosed notch structure between the large receiving cavity and the small receiving cavity, the notch structure protruding at least partly into the gap along a vertical direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction so as to form the large receiving cavity and the small receiving cavity; and first and second sets of contacts located in the wide tongue and the narrow tongue, respectively, the first contacts being compatible to version 2.0 Micro Universal Serial Bus; wherein the front pocket comprises a top wall, a first side wall extending downwardly from one side of the top wall, a second side wall extending downwardly from the other side of the top wall, a first bottom wall connected to the first side wall and a second bottom wall connected to the second side wall, the notch structure comprising a first lateral wall connected to the first bottom wall and a second lateral wall connected to the second bottom wall, the notch structure defining a notch formed between the first lateral wall and the second lateral wall, and the notch being opened to an exterior from a bottom side thereof; and wherein the larger receiving cavity defines a first horizontal central line, the small receiving cavity defines a second horizontal central line, and a top end of the notch structure protrudes upwardly beyond the first horizontal central line and the second horizontal central line.