Patent ID: 8348701

Claim:
A cable connector assembly, comprising: a plug connector adapted for connecting with a cable, the plug connector including a plug housing having a base portion and a tongue portion protruded downward from a bottom of the base portion, the tongue portion defining an inserting groove extending vertically to penetrate through a bottom of the tongue portion, the plug housing defining two rows of plug terminal grooves of which each has a top thereof penetrating through the base portion and a bottom thereof penetrating through a corresponding side wall of the inserting groove, a plurality of plug terminals each received in the plug terminal groove with a top end thereof being fastened in the top of the plug terminal groove and connected with the cable, and a bottom end thereof being exposed out from the corresponding side wall, and a plug shielding shell surrounding the base portion of the plug housing, a plurality of contact strips extending downward from a periphery bottom of the plug shielding shell to be attached to periphery outsides of the plug housing; and a receptacle connector adapted for being soldered on a printed circuit board and engaged with the plug connector, the receptacle connector including a receptacle housing having a bottom wall, two side walls and two end walls which are interconnected to define a receiving space thereamong for receiving the tongue portion therein, an inserting portion being protruded upward from a top of the bottom wall and inserted into the inserting groove, the receptacle housing defining two rows of receptacle terminal grooves of which each has one side thereof passing through an inner surface of the side wall and the bottom wall, and the other side thereof passing through a side surface of the inserting portion facing the side wall and the bottom wall, a plurality of receptacle terminals received in the receptacle terminal grooves, each receptacle terminal having a soldering portion projected out of the receptacle housing to be soldered on the printed circuit board, one end of the soldering portion defining two contact portions spaced from each other to be respectively inserted into the two sides of the receptacle terminal groove to contact with the bottom ends of the plug terminals, and a receptacle shielding shell surrounding the receptacle housing, a plurality of elastic strips being bent inward and then extending downward from a periphery top of the receptacle shielding shell to project into the receiving space to contact with the contact strips, at least two soldering plates extending outward from a periphery bottom of the receptacle shielding shell to be soldered on the printed circuit board.