Patent ID: 6837747

Claim:
A connector of the type that includes a connector insulator with front and rear ends, a plurality of contacts extending through said connector insulator and having contact rear ends projecting from said connector insulator rear end, and a metal shell that extends around a side of said connector insulator, wherein the connector includes a plurality of circuit component with first and second component terminals that are connected between a first of said contacts and said metal shell, comprising: a flexible circuit that comprises a sheet of bendable insulative material having first and second opposite sheet faces, a plurality of metal-plated signal holes in said sheet, and a ground trace on one of said sheet faces; each of a plurality of said contact rear ends projects through one of said signal holes; said first component terminals are each electrically connected, at a location of one of said signal holes, through a solder joint to the contact rear end that passes through the signal hole and to the metal-plated hole, and said second component terminals are each connected to said ground trace; said flexible circuit is bent to locate a plurality of location on said ground trace against said metal shell, said plurality of locations being soldered to said metal shell.