Patent ID: 6860765

Claim:
An electrical connector surface mountable onto a substrate for transmitting power, comprising: a housing of insulative material including a bottom surface adapted to face a substrate that the connector is surface mountable to, a top surface opposite the bottom surface, and a plurality of passageways between the bottom and the top surface, the housing providing at least two different geometries on the top surfaces thereof in accordance with the passageways such that there is at least one pole that may be inserted into one of the passageways having one geometry but may not be inserted into another one of the passageways having the other geometry; and a plurality of contacts of conductive material assembled to the housing, each contact including a contacting portion at one end thereof, a tail portion at another end thereof and an intermediate portion joining the contacting portion and the tail portion, the contacting portions being received in corresponding ones of the passageways, the tail portion being located under the bottom surface of the housing and being generally parallel to the bottom surface such that the tail portions are surface mountable onto the substrate.