Patent ID: 6902442

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing having two side walls and a central slot between the side walls along a longitudinal direction thereof, each side wall defining an elongate cavity and a plurality of openings; said central slot communicating with an exterior through a mating face of the housing; two rows of contacts insert molded within internal faces of said two side walls of the housing and located by two sides of the central slot, respectively, each of said contacts defining a vertical mating portion located on the corresponding internal face; wherein a plurality of ribs is arranged in the cavity, and a hole is defined between every two ribs and includes a cone portion at a rear end thereof; wherein each rib has a pair of ramps at an upper and a lower ends thereof; said holes extending inwardly from an exterior face of each of said side walls and located between two mating portions of every adjacent two contacts, respectively, each of said holes directly facing the mating portions of the two contacts by two sides thereof in the longitudinal direction; and said openings extending inwardly from the exterior face of each of said side walls and respectively located in alignment with the mating portion of the corresponding contact in a lateral direction perpendicular to said longitudinal directions; wherein said openings are located adjacent to the mating face; wherein rear portions of the openings adjacent to the contacts are V-shaped; wherein said holes and said openings are arranged at different levels in a vertical direction perpendicular to both said longitudinal direction and said lateral direction.