Patent ID: 8172610

Claim:
An electric connector used in the state of being inserted with a connector serving as a fitting mate for the electric connector comprising: a main body housing formed of long and thin insulating members, a conductive ground shell attached to the main body housing, a connector-side ground connecting member to be brought into contact with the conductive ground shell of the connector serving as the fitting mate for the electric connector, a board-side ground connecting member to be brought in contact with a printed wiring board, a plurality of connector-side ground connecting members and board-side ground connecting members being arranged at suitable intervals along the longitudinal direction of the main body housing, each of the plurality of the connector-side ground connecting members and the board-side ground connecting members extending in a cantilever form; wherein the extending directions in the cantilever form of the connector-side ground connecting member and the board-side ground connecting member are set approximately in parallel with the inserting direction of the connector serving as the fitting mate for the electric connector and approximately in a same direction as a fitting direction so that respective board-side ground connecting members and respective connector-side ground connecting members are positioned on the same lines to configure each pair of the board-side ground connecting member and the connector-side ground connecting member, and a plurality of pairs of the board-side ground connecting member and the connector-side ground connecting member are disposed on the same line are arranged along the longitudinal direction of the main body housing.