Patent ID: 7229298

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: a longitudinal housing defining a mating slot; a plurality of signal terminals loaded in the housing and arranged in a row along a longitudinal direction of the housing, each signal terminal having a solder tail to be soldered to a printed circuit board (PCB) and a contact portion extending into the mating slot; at least a grounding terminal arranged in the same row as the signal terminals and having a solder tail coplanar with the solder tails of the signal terminals; a conductor means loaded in the housing and partly extending into the mating slot to oppositely facing the contact portions of the signal terminals; and a shell surrounding the housing and electrically connected to the conductor means and the grounding terminals; wherein the signal terminals and the grounding terminal are about the same in configuration, except the grounding terminals have no contact portion extending into the mating slot for contacting a complementary connector.