Electrical connector

An electrical connector straddle mounted on a printed circuit board comprising:

• a housing being adapted to mate with a mating connector;
• a support subassembly with at least two groups of signal conductors installed thereon being installed in the housing, said signal conductors of the support subassembly all extending throughout the housing to engage with the mating connector and printed circuit board respectively;
• wherein
• the support subassembly includes a ground member having portions extending near every group of the signal conductors respectively to keep a parallel-arranged relationship with them, said ground member has a plurality of contacting legs to electrically connect to the printed circuit board so that the portions parallel to the signal conductors are able to ground via any of them.

An electrical connector straddle mounted on a printed circuit board comprising:

• a housing having a mating side face of the housing used to mate with a mating connector and a mounting side face opposing to the mating side face confronting one edge of the printed circuit board;
• a support subassembly comprising signal conductors and at least one ground member neighboring every signal conductor as ground reference, said ground member having a plurality of contacting legs extending therefrom and beyond the mounting side face of the housing;
• wherein
• said contacting legs are spaced apart along the lengthwise direction and alternately arranged in two row so that each row of said contacting legs are able to mounted on one surface of the printed circuit board.