Patent ID: 8500464

Claim:
Electric surface mount device (SMD) male connector, comprising: a body of plastic material, having a substantially planar base lower wall, to which a metal plate is associated for a soldered connection to a board of a printed circuit, a plurality of metal contacts, carried by the body of the connector having front end portions, for mating with the contacts of a female connector, said front end portions projecting from a front surface of the body of the connector, parallel to, and spaced apart from, said base lower surface, and rear end portions which project form a rear surface of the body of the connector, in a plane substantially coincident with the plane of said base lower surface and along directions parallel to each other, wherein said front end portions of the metal contacts are equally angularly spaced along a circumference and are oriented so that the front portions of every contact of the connector is at a different distance from the base lower surface and so that theoretical projections of said front portions of the contacts on the plane of said lower surface are substantially equally spaced apart from each other, whereby said rear end portions of the metal contacts are also equally spaced apart from each other.