Patent ID: 7232346

Claim:
A female connector compatible to standard Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector and adapted for being mounted on a mother board, comprises: an insulative housing including a body portion and a tongue extending forwardly from the body portion, the tongue defining a plurality of passageways in a planar surface; a plurality of first contacts mounted on the housing, each first contact including a first tail portion connecting to the mother board and a beam extending forwardly from the tail portion, each first beam including a contact portion on a front free end thereof, each first beam being received in a corresponding passageway with the contact portion extending beyond the planar surface of the tongue; a plurality of second contacts mounted on the insulative housing, each second contact including a second tail portion connected to the mother board and a second beam extending forwardly from the second tail portion, each second beam being received in a corresponding passageway with the second contact portion extending out of the planar surface of the tongue, the second contact portions being spaced from the first contact portions in a front-to-rear direction; and a metal shell enclosing the insulative housing the metal shell including a front shell portion enclosing the tongue and defining a receiving space around the tongue for receiving a mating connector therein, the receiving space and the arrangement of the first contacts, other than the second contacts, in the insulative housing being compatible to a Standard USB connector; wherein the first contacts are narrower than contacts of the Standard USB connector.