Patent ID: 7641519

Claim:
A USB connector comprising an electrically insulative housing, a set of first metal terminals mounted in said electrically insulative housing, a set of second metal terminals mounted in said electrically insulative housing and electrically isolated from said set of first metal terminals, wherein: said electrically insulative housing comprises upper base member and a tongue plate forwardly extended from a front side of said upper base member, said tongue plate comprising an exposed space area defined in a front side of a bottom wall thereof remote from said upper base member and a plurality of terminal grooves formed in the bottom wall at a rear side relative to said exposed space area; said first metal terminals are embedded in said upper base member and said tongue plate of said electrically insulative housing, each said first metal terminal comprising a front contact end suspending in said exposed space area of said tongue plate and a rear bonding end extended out of a rear side of said upper base member for bonding to an external circuit board; said second metal terminals are respectively upwardly inserted into said terminal grooves of said tongue plate, each said second metal terminal comprising a base portion positioned in one said terminal groove of said tongue plate, a front contact end extended from a front side of said base portion and exposed outside the associating terminal groove, and a rear bonding end extended from a rear side of said base portion for bonding to the external circuit board to which said first metal terminals are bonded.