Patent ID: 7578696

Claim:
An electrical connector assembly comprising: an insulative housing including a forwardly protruding mating port in a suspension manner and defining therein an array of cavities each essentially having a square cross-section for receiving a corresponding silo part of a complementary plug connector; a plurality of ribs formed on a rear face of the housing in alignment with the corresponding cavities, respectively, so as to form a plurality of channels each between every adjacent two ribs; a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing each defining an L-shaped base portion with a mating portion positioned at a front end of the base portion and disposed in the corresponding cavity, and with a mounting portion positioned at a bottom end of the base portion and located around a mounting face of the housing, said L-shaped base portion including a horizontal section and a vertical section; and a cover attached onto the insulative housing and including a vertical plate for covering the vertical section of each contact, the vertical plate defining a plurality of through slots for heat dissipation; wherein the cover further includes a horizontal plate for covering the horizontal section of each contact, the horizontal plate defining a plurality of through slots for heat dissipation; wherein each of the through slots of the vertical plate are aligned with the corresponding channels; wherein each of the through slots of the horizontal plate are aligned with the corresponding channels.