Patent ID: 7806735

Claim:
A crosstalk-free connector comprising: an insulative body having a front end and a rear end; multiple terminals mounted in the insulative body and some of the terminals being multiple pairs of signal transmission terminals; and a metal shell covering the insulative body and the terminals and having a front opening; a cavity defined in the metal shell, communicating with the front opening and accommodating the insulative body and the terminals; and a rear plate being behind the rear end of the insulative body and having at least one crosstalk-eliminating slot defined through the rear plate, and the at least one crosstalk-eliminating slot being located between two adjacent pairs of the signal transmission terminals when observed from the rear end of the insulative body; wherein the rear plate of the metal shell has a top edge and a bottom edge, and the at least one crosstalk-eliminating slot is an open slot and has a bottom opening adjacent to the bottom edge of the rear plate; and wherein a height of the at least one crosstalk-eliminating slot is at most equivalent to a height of the rear plate.