Patent ID: 6875048

Claim:
A cable end connector assembly comprising: an insulative housing defining a mating port; a plurality of signal and grounding contacts disposed in the housing in a mixed-up manner along a lateral direction of the housing, the contacts including engaging portions equidistantly arranged with one another along said lateral direction, each of said contacts essentially defining a central axis, along a longitudinal direction perpendicular to said lateral direction, relative to which the corresponding engaging portion is symmetric; and a cable located on a rear portion of the housing and including plural pairs of wires each defining a signal conductor and a grounding conductor extending in said longitudinal direction, the signal conductor and the grounding conductor of each of said pair spaced, along said lateral direction, from each other with a distance which is smaller than that between either of said signal conductor and said grounding conductor and another neighboring conductor of the adjacent pair along said lateral direction; wherein the contacts further includes respectively a plurality of tail soldering portions corresponding to said signal conductors and said grounding conductors in a one-to-one manner, and some of said tail soldering portions are intentionally offset, along said lateral direction, from the corresponding central axis so as to actively align, along the longitudinal direction, with the corresponding one of said signal conductors and said grounding conductors without requirement of adjustment of the corresponding conductors along said lateral direction.