Patent ID: 7572130

Claim:
A connector for providing a connection between a circuit board and an electronic component, the connector comprising: a base having a mating interface adapted to mate with the electronic component, and a back wall opposite to the mating interface, the base including a pair of side connection sections with each defining thereof an upper surface and a bottom surface, and a pair of back mounting platforms; a plurality of contact terminals having first contact sections extending towards the mating interface, and opposite second contact sections locatable between the pair of back mounting platforms and extending out of the back wall to be set in a common horizontal mounting plane, said horizontal mounting plane locatable between the upper surface and bottom surface; and solder connection elements disposed in the respective side connection sections, each said solder connection element having an initial end extending from adjacent one of said upper and bottom surfaces toward the other of said upper and bottom surface in a first direction to an inverse point, and then reversely in an opposite second direction to be terminated at a horizontal solder section being at a same level with the common horizontal mounting plane, the distance defined between said initial end and the inverse point being than the distance defined between said horizontal solder section and the inverse point.