Patent ID: 7731541

Claim:
A backplane connector comprising: a housing having an insertion slot defined in the housing; and a mounting slot defined in the housing opposite to the insertion slot; a first insulative base, being longitudinal, formed into one-piece, mounted in the mounting slot of the housing and having multiple inserting slits defined in the first insulative base; a second insulative base, being longitudinal, formed into one-piece, mounted in the mounting slot of the housing and having multiple inserting slits defined in the second insulative base; multiple first terminals mounted on the first insulative base; multiple second terminals mounted on the second insulative base; and multiple third terminals mounted respectively in the inserting slits of the first insulative base and mounted respectively in the inserting slits of the second insulative base; wherein each of the first and second insulative bases further has a top surface, a bottom surface, an inside surface, an outside surface and two ends and further has a hooking portion formed on the outside surface adjacent to the bottom surface of each of the first and second insulative bases; the inserting slits of each of the first and second insulative bases are defined in the bottom surface of each of the first and second insulative bases; and each third terminal has two hooks formed on the third terminal and respectively hooking on the hooking portions and each hook has a hooking notch engaged with one of the hooking portions.