Patent ID: 8100720

Claim:
An electrical connector, comprising: an insulative housing defining a mating cavity; a tongue portion forwards extending into the mating cavity and defining thereon first and second faces opposite to each other; a first set of contacts including two pairs of differential pairs and three grounding contacts with each of the differential pairs arranged between two adjacent grounding contacts, and each of the differential pairs defining a first contacting section disposed in the first face and a soldering section; a second set of contacts each defining a deflectable cantilevered beam accessible from the second face; wherein the three grounding contacts includes a first grounding contact having a main section retained in the tongue portion and further extending into the mating cavity along the tongue portion to locate between the two differential pairs, and second and third grounding contacts providing two blade contacting sections respectively located at two outer sides of the two differential pairs, and the main section of the first grounding contact is disposed in a plane perpendicular to the first face, and the contacting sections of the second and third grounding contacts each is disposed in a plane parallel to the first face.