Electrical connector having an improved grounding path

摘要

An electrical connector ( 1 ) including a longitudinal housing ( 10 ) defining a mating slot ( 100 ); a plurality of signal terminals ( 31 ) loaded in the housing and arranged in a row along a longitudinal direction of the housing, each signal terminal having a solder tail ( 302 ) to be soldered to a printed circuit board (PCB) and a contact portion ( 303 ) extending into the mating slot; at least a grounding terminal ( 32 ) arranged in the same row of the signal terminals and having a solder tail coplanar with the solder tails of the signal terminals; a conductor means ( 40 ) loaded in the housing and partly extending into the mating slot to oppositely facing the contact portions of the signal terminals; and a shell ( 20 ) surrounding the housing and electrically connected to the conductor means and the grounding terminals.