Patent ID: 8002588

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing defining a mating port with a mating tongue exposing therein and a base from which the mating tongue extends forwardly, a plurality of grooves arranged in the mating tongue and extending along a front-to-back direction through the base; and a plurality of contacts including mating sections received in the grooves; wherein each of the grooves defines a wider portion adjacent to the base; wherein the mating sections of the contacts have a same width therealong, thereby the mating sections space away from inside surfaces of the grooves at the wider portions; wherein the wider portions of the grooves are symmetrical about corresponding central axis of the grooves; wherein the base defines retaining slots aligned with corresponding grooves to receive and retain the contacts; wherein the mating section of the contact defines a planar outer face away from a mating face of the mating tongue and slightly above the mating face in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction for engagement with a complementary contact of a counterpart connector; wherein said insulative housing defines a second mating port with said mating port side by side, a plurality of second contacts disposed in the second mating port and different from said contacts disposed in the mating tongue.