Patent ID: 7704101

Claim:
An electric connector comprising: an insulating body in a shape adapted to be engaged on a front face thereof with a mating connector, the body having terminal receiving holes aligned in a widthwise direction thereof at an equal pitch distance in a plurality of levels shifted in phase and spaced apart from one another in correspondence with contacts of the mating connector; a plurality of levels of contact groups, each including a plurality of contacts in substantially L-letter shapes with tip end sides thereof being received and retained in the terminal receiving holes in the body and base end sides thereof being disposed along a rear face of the body, and a dielectric spacer, wherein the base end sides of the contacts of the contact groups include lead portions at rear ends thereof and bent portions in generally L-shape, the lead portions of the contacts of the contact groups are aligned in a line in the widthwise direction at a pitch distance t, the bent portions of the contacts of the contact groups are located in the vicinity of the terminal receiving holes in the rear face of the body, of all the bent portions, adjacent bent portions in the widthwise direction are spaced apart from each other at a distance “n×t,” the n being an integer not smaller than two, and space between the adjacent bent portions defines a blank region, and the dielectric spacer is disposed in the blank region.