Patent ID: 8870606

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing comprising a base and a mating portion protruding forwardly from the base, the base defining a receiving space, the mating portion defining a plurality of contact-receiving slots in communication with the receiving space; a contact module comprising an insulative block and a plurality of contacts fixed in the insulative block through insert molding, the insulative block defining an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to the upper surface, the contacts comprising a plurality of cantilevered contacting portions extending beyond the insulative block and a plurality of soldering pads exposed on the upper surface and the lower surface, respectively, the contact module being inserted into the insulative housing along a rear-to-front direction with the insulative block received in the receiving space and the cantilevered contacting portions deformably received in the contact-receiving slots; a plurality of cables with a plurality of conductive cores electrically and mechanically connected to the soldering pads; a cable regulation block defining a pair of side through holes and a plurality of openings for positioning cables; and a pair of latches received in the insulative housing for locking with a complementary connector, each latch further comprising a mounting protrusion extending rearwardly beyond the rear surface of the base and fixed in a corresponding one of the side through holes; and wherein the cantilevered contacting portions of adjacent contacts overlap each other from a side view, while the soldering pads of the adjacent contacts are offset from each other and exposed on the upper surface and the lower surface, respectively, from the side view.