Patent ID: 7448884

Claim:
A connector adapted to be mounted on a connection object for connection to a mating connector, wherein: the connector comprises contacts each of which has a contact portion placed on a contact portion side of the connector for connection to the mating connector and a terminal portion placed on a terminal portion side for connection to the connection object, the contacts comprise a plurality of signal contact members and a plurality of ground contact members, the signal contact members making a plurality of pairs, the ground contact members being arranged with spaces left therebetween, on the contact portion side, the pairs of the signal contact members are placed in the spaces, respectively, and on the terminal portion side, the signal contact members and the ground contact members are separately arranged on parallel rows, the pairs of the signal contact members face the spaces, respectively, and the signal contact members and the ground contact members form at least one trapezoidal array on one side of the first row.