Patent ID: 8342863

Claim:
A connector wherein said connector includes a contact group, and an insulator which holds said contact group, said contact group includes at least paired adjacent signal contacts, and non-paired contacts which are placed on both adjacent sides or one adjacent side of the paired signal contacts, each of said paired signal contacts and said non-paired contacts has a terminal portion which is to be connected to a connection object, and a contact portion which is to be connected to a counter contact, said paired signal contacts and said non-paired contacts are, in a range extending from said terminal portion to said contact portion, in parallel to a fitting/unfitting direction of said connector and said counter connector, and arranged in a pitch direction which is perpendicular to the fitting/unfitting direction so that a distance between said paired signal contacts is shorter than a distance between said signal contact and said non-paired contact, and said non-paired contacts are ground contacts; wherein: a downward step portion is formed in the vicinity of the front end of the contact portion, an embedded portion is configured by a front end portion of the contact portion that is on the front side of the step portion; and, the embedded portions of the non-paired contacts extend beyond the embedded portions of the paired signal contacts in the fitting/unfitting direction of the counter connector.