Patent ID: 7618293

Claim:
An electrical connector, comprising: a first housing piece defining a tongue portion defining a mating surface thereon; a first set of contacts immovably held in the first housing piece, each first contact comprising a nonelastic contact portion exposed on the mating surface of the tongue portion; a second housing piece assembled to the first housing piece to form an insulative housing; a second set of contacts immovably held in the second housing piece and comprising at least one pair of differential contacts immovably held in the second housing piece for transferring high-speed signals, and each of the second set of contacts comprising an elastic contact portion exposed on the mating surface of the tongue portion of the first housing piece to be located behind the nonelastic contact portion along the front-to-back direction; a plurality of first and second wires electrically connecting with the first and second sets of the contacts, and at least two second wires connected to a single second contact; wherein the first set of contacts is adapted for USB 2.0 protocol and an arrangement of the first set of contacts is compatible to a standard USB 2.0 receptacle, and wherein the pair of differential contacts are adapted for non-USB 2.0 protocol; a ground conductor located adjacent to the different pair.