Patent ID: 7654873

Claim:
An electrical connector, comprising: an insulative housing defining a forwardly protruding mating portion with a front face and an opposite back face, said mating portion having first and second parts divided by a partition; the first part having a first L-shaped cavity and the second part having a second non-L-shaped cavity, both of the first and second cavities extending from the front face toward the back face; a plurality of passageways aligned in a row and extending therethrough from the front face to the back face and disposed on a transverse edge section of a corresponding one of the first and second cavities, the passageways adapted to communicate with the corresponding one of the first and second cavities; and a plurality of terminals inserted into the passageways in a direction from the back face to the front face of the mating portion and wherein said first L-shaped cavity has a vertical section adjacently disposed at one passageway in said row, while said second non-L-shaped cavity has no vertical section adjacently disposed at one of the passageways in said row.