Patent ID: 7901220

Claim:
A connector as comprising: a housing; and a plurality of contacts which are formed by at least blanking an elastic metal plate, and which are held by said housing in a predetermined arranging direction, said contacts each including a contact portion which is brought into contact with a first object to be connected, a terminal portion which is connected to a second object to be connected, and a connecting portion which connects said contact portion and said terminal portion; wherein portions of said connecting portions and said terminal portions of at least part of the plurality of contacts are inclined by a predetermined angle with respect to an imaginary surface orthogonal to the arranging direction so as not to interfere with other adjacent ones of said contacts during blanking, wherein the plurality of contacts include a plurality of pairs of signal contacts and a plurality of ground contacts, wherein said terminal portions of said signal contacts and said terminal portions of said ground contacts are arranged in two rows parallel to each other along the arranging direction, and wherein imaginary straight lines connecting between said terminal portions of each pair of signal contacts in the row of said terminal portions of said signal contacts, and said terminal portions of each adjacent two of said ground contacts in the row of said terminal portions of said ground contacts, which are located in the vicinity of said terminal portions of the pair of said signal contacts, form a trapezoid.