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1. A universal serial bus (USB) connector comprising:
a special USB plug having a plug ground contact and a plug contact portion which is not provided in a standard USB plug compliant with a USB standard, the plug ground contact having a width wider than another width compliant with a 2.0 version of the USB standard, the plug contact portion being a part of the plug ground contact; and a USB receptacle selectively mateable with and removable from the standard USB plug and the special USB plug along a predetermined direction, the USB receptacle having a plurality of contacts compliant with the 2.0 version of the USB standard, a detector and a holding member, the contacts including a ground contact which is connected to the plug ground contact under a mated state where the USB receptacle is mated with the special USB plug, each of the contacts having a contact point, the detector having a detecting portion which is brought into contact with the plug contact portion under the mated state, the holding member having a plate portion formed with a principal surface, the holding member arranging and holding the contacts in a width direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction so that the contact point of the contact projects from the principal surface of the plate portion, the holding member holding the detector so that the detecting portion projects from the principal surface of the plate portion, a distance between the detecting portion and the contact point of the ground contact being smaller than a distance between the detecting portion and the contact point of the contact other than the ground contact. |
