Patent ID: 7422488

Claim:
An electrical connector, comprising: an insulative housing extending in a front-to-back direction; and a first set of contacts held in the insulative housing, each first contact comprising a nonelastic contact portion; a second set of contacts held in the insulative housing and comprising at least one pair of differential contacts held in the insulative housing for transferring high-speed signals, and each of the second set of contacts comprising an elastic contact portion located behind the nonelastic contact portion along the front-to-back direction; and wherein at least one set of the first and second sets of contacts are permanently held in the insulative housing, while the other set of the first and second sets of contacts is assembled to the insulative housing along front-to-back direction; wherein the insulative housing comprises a base portion and a front tongue portion, and wherein the first and second sets of contacts are held in the base portion with the elastic contact portions and the nonelastic contact portions are arranged in the tongue portion; wherein the tongue portion comprises a supporting surface, and wherein the nonelastic contact portions of the first set of contacts are substantially coplanar with the supporting surface of the tongue portion and wherein the elastic contact portions of the second set of contacts are beyond the supporting surface; wherein the first set of contacts is adapted for USB protocol and an arrangement of the first set of contacts is compatible to a standard USB receptacle, and wherein the pair of differential contacts are adapted for non-USB protocol; wherein the second set of contacts further comprises a ground contact.