Patent ID: 7857665

Claim:
An electrical connector defining a receiving space for accommodating a corresponding connector, comprising: an insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue plate protruding from the base portion into the receiving space, a plurality of first passageways being defined on a first surface of the tongue plate; a set of first contacts comprising first contacting sections received in the first passageways, first bending sections downwardly extending from the first contacting sections, and first tail sections extending from the first bending sections, the first contacting sections being arranged in a single row and being distributed essentially evenly over the first surface, the first bending sections including a plurality of first offset sections and at least one second offset section, a space between each adjacent two first tail sections being much larger than that of the corresponding first contacting sections; and a metal shell fixed to the base portion and enclosing the tongue plate; wherein a first slope of each first offset section is of one of positive and negative numbers while a second slope of the second offset section is of the rest of the positive and negative numbers.