Patent ID: 8475211

Claim:
An electrical connector adapted for at least two different mating connectors, comprising: an insulative housing having a base and a tongue forwardly extending from the base; a plurality of contacts, each contact having a retaining portion retained in the base, a contact portion extending to the tongue from one end of the retaining portion, and at least one soldering portion extending out of the insulative housing from another end of the retaining portion; and a metal shell surrounding the tongue, the metal shell has a bottom wall, the bottom wall has an upwardly protruding portion at a middle position thereof and two downward recessed portions are two sides of the protruding portion, the metal shell surrounds the tongue to define an opening, the opening has two mating openings for receiving said two different mating connectors, only one of the mating opening has a bottom contour complying to that the bottom wall, and the other mating opening is located completely above the protruding portion of the bottom wall and spaced with the recessed portions; wherein the contacts comprise two pairs of outer contacts at two sides thereof and at least one middle contact between said two pairs of outer contacts, the contact portions of all of said contacts are exposed on a same face of the tongue for mating with both the different mating connectors; wherein the contact portions of all contacts are arranged in a row at one surface of the tongue along an up to down direction; wherein the electrical connector comprises two said middle contacts for simultaneously connecting with one contact of said one mating connector and respectively connecting with two contacts of said another mating connector; and wherein the contact portions of said middle contacts define a distance therebetween along a transverse direction perpendicular to the up to down direction, and the distance is smaller than that between the contact portions of each pair of outer contacts.