Patent ID: 7614920

Claim:
An electrical receptacle, comprising: an insulative housing including a base and a pair of first and second tongue portions protruding forwardly from the base, the first and the second tongue portions being apart from each other by a gap formed therebetween, the first and second tongue portions being arranged side by side and being coplanar with each other, each of the first and the second tongue portions having a mating surface defined with a plurality of recessed areas adjacent to a tip of the corresponding first or second tongue portion; a metallic shell fixed to the base of the insulative housing and comprising an integral receiving space which is essentially rectangular shaped from a front view under a condition that the first and the second tongue portions communicate with each other in the receiving space and; a plurality of conductive contacts each comprising an elastic contact portion extending beyond the mating surface and protruding into the receiving space; and a plurality of additional contacts each comprising a nonelastic contact portion located forward the elastic contact portion along a rear-to-front direction, the elastic and the nonelastic contact portions being located on a same side of the first or the second tongue portion; wherein the nonelastic contact portions are received in the recessed areas and are exposed to the receiving space.