Patent ID: 8535067

Claim:
A power connector mounting on a printed circuit board (PCB), comprising: an insulating housing extending along a transversal direction and defining a plurality of passageways extending therethrough along a front-to-back direction, said insulating housing having a front wall, an opposite rear wall, a pair of side walls and a bottom wall, said plurality of passageways opened from said front wall and said rear wall, respectively; and a plurality of pairs of flat power contacts received in corresponding passageways; and at least one spacer assembled to said pairs of power contacts with locking members thereon for holding said pairs of power contacts in positions with respect to said insulating housing, said spacer having a surface coplanar with a surface of said rear wall; wherein each power contact defines a positioning slot inwardly recessed from a rear side edge thereof; wherein said rear wall defines at least one positioning groove communicating with said positioning slots of said power contacts and wherein said spacer is engaged within said at least one positioning groove and said positioning slots.