Patent ID: 7025633

Claim:
A connector for differential transmission, comprising: a housing made of an insulating material, the housing including a connector connection opening on a first face thereof; a plurality of signal contact pairs each including first and second signal contact members, the signal contact members each including a signal terminal part; and a plurality of ground contact members each including a first ground terminal part and a second ground terminal part extending in opposite directions, respectively, wherein the signal contact pairs and the ground contact members are disposed alternately in the housing so that the signal terminal parts of the first and second signal contact members of the signal contact pairs and the first and second ground terminal parts of the ground contact members are provided on a second face of the housing, the second face opposing the first face thereof, so as to have an arrangement of the signal terminal parts of the first and second signal contact members of the signal contact pairs and the first ground terminal parts of the ground contact members in a first line and an arrangement of only the second ground terminal parts of the ground contact members in a second line; and the signal terminal parts of the first and second signal contact members extend in a same direction in each signal contact pair.