Patent ID: 8282423

Claim:
A connector comprising: (i) a housing; (ii) a plurality of ground contacts each including a holding portion that is held by said housing, a terminal portion to be inserted into a circuit board, and a linking portion that connects said holding portion and said terminal portion, wherein said terminal portion extends in a direction substantially orthogonal to said linking portion, wherein said plurality of ground contacts are arranged in a predetermined direction and disposed in two rows in a terminal portion-inserting direction that is perpendicular to the predetermined direction, wherein said plurality of ground contacts comprise a plurality of pairs of two ground contacts that are adjacent in the predetermined direction, wherein in each said pair, said linking portions of said adjacent ground contacts are connected by a connecting portion, so that each said pair of adjacent ground contacts constitutes a combination contact; and (iii) an alignment member that is mounted on said plurality of ground contacts, for positioning said terminal portions, wherein said alignment member includes receiving portions that receive said linking portions, open portions from which said connecting portions of said combination contacts in one row of the two rows are exposed to outside, and movement preventing portions that prevent relative movement of said connecting portions of said combination contacts in the other row of the two rows, in a direction toward the one row.