Electrical connector having adjacent ground and power contacts with tail portions interposed by signal contact tail portion

摘要

An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a tongue; an upper and lower rows of contacts arranged in the insulative housing and exposed to the tongue, each contact having a contacting portion, a tail portion, and an intermediate portion, each row of contacts including an outermost ground contact, a power contact adjacent to the ground contact, and plural signal contacts; and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing; wherein the contacting portions of the ground and power contacts are next to each other; the tail portion of the ground contact in the upper row of contacts is next to at least one signal contact tail portion in the lower row of contacts; and the tail portion of the ground contact in the lower row of contacts is next to at least one signal contact tail portion in the upper row of contacts.