Patent ID: 8747147

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing formed with a base and a tongue extending forwardly from the base; a metallic shell covering the insulative housing thereby defining a receiving cavity surrounding the tongue for receiving a mating plug and defining an insertion direction; a plurality of contacts mounted to the insulative housing; and a first and a second detect pins fastened to two different positions of the base, respectively, each of the first and the second detect pins forwardly protruding and having a detecting portion located in the receiving cavity, the detecting portions of the first and the second detect pins disposed offset along the insertion direction for being selectively pushed by the mating plug; wherein the contacts include five first contacts and four second contacts, each first contact has a flat contacting portion, each second contact has an elastic contacting portion, the flat contacting portions are exposed on a face of the tongue and in a front row, the elastic contacting portions are exposed on the same face of the tongue and in a rear row; wherein the second contact has a grounding contact formed with an upright wing, a part of the wing is exposed and contacts with the detecting portion of the second contact while disconnects with the detecting portion of the second contact when a plug is inserted in the receiving space.