Patent ID: 6860755

Claim:
A cable connector comprising: a cable having a plurality of wires; a connector housing; and a terminal module mountable on said connector housing to establish an electrical connection with said wires, said terminal module including an insulative body having two opposed first and second faces, and a plurality of spaced apart parallel ribs formed in said first face and confining grooves therebetween, said insulative body being molded over two rows of terminals, wherein said terminals each include a retention section surrounded by said insulative body, and a tail section extending out of said insulative housing through said first face, said parallel ribs and grooves extending between said two rows of said tail sections, said grooves having first ends on the same side and second ends opposite to said first ends; wherein said tail sections of said terminals include bent sections extending respectively from said retention sections, and soldering sections extending respectively from said bent sections and being coplanar with each other in a same plane, said soldering sections being soldered respectively to said wires, said bent sections having proximal ends adjacent to said first face and distal ends extending away from said first face and connected to said soldering sections, all of said bent sections converging from said proximal ends to said plane of said soldering sections, said proximal ends of said bent sections in one of said rows and said proximal ends of said bent sections in the other one of said rows alternately passing through said first and second ends of said grooves, every other one of said first ends of said grooves receiving one of said proximal ends of said terminals of one row, every other one of said second ends of said grooves receiving one of said proximal ends of said terminals of the other row, said proximal ends of said bent sections being spaced from each other by said ribs.