Patent ID: 7845961

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing; a plurality of contacts retained in the insulative housing and arranged in one row, the contacts consisting of a first type of grounding contacts and a second type of plural pairs of differential contacts; and a metal shell covering the insulative housing, the metal shell having a receiving space for receiving a matchable plug; wherein the differential contacts comprise three pairs of differential contacts for unidirectionally transmitting data and a fourth pair of differential contacts for bi-directionally transmitting hybrid data, the grounding contacts comprise five grounding contacts; wherein each pair of some pairs of differential contacts are arranged between each two adjacent grounding contacts; wherein said three pairs of differential contacts and three of the five grounding contacts are arranged alternatively, the other two of the five grounding contacts are arranged between the fourth pair of differential contacts and one of the three pairs of differential contacts; wherein one of the other two grounding contacts is arranged adjacent to the one pair of differential contacts, the other one is arranged adjacent to the fourth pair of differential contacts; wherein each contact has a same shape and has a retaining portion retained in the insulative housing, a contacting portion extending from one end of the retaining portion for mating with the matchable plug, a tail portion for being mounted on a printed circuit board, and a connecting portion connecting the other end of the retaining portion and the tail portion, the insulative housing has a base for retaining the retaining portion, and a tongue plate extending into the receiving space and defining a plurality of passageways on one side thereof for receiving the contacting portion.