Card edge connector with power contacts

A card edge connector defining a central slot to receive a memory card, comprising:

• an elongate insulative housing having a pair of opposed side walls, the central slot is formed between the side walls, each side wall defines a plurality of passageways;
• a plurality of signal contacts retained in the passageways, each signal contact having an engaging portion extending into the central slot;
• and
• a plurality of power contacts arranged in two rows respectively retained in two side walls of the insulative housing, each power contact has a securing portion, a contact portion extending upwardly and sidewardly from one end of the securing portion, and a tail portion extending downwardly from another end of the securing portion.
• wherein the securing portions of the power contacts in each row are connected with each other.

A card edge connector comprising:

• an elongated insulative housing defining therein in a longitudinal direction an elongated central slot communicating with an exterior via a mating face of said housing in a vertical direction perpendicular to said longitudinal direction;
• two rows of contacts disposed in corresponding passageways of the housing and located by two sides of the central slot, each of said contacts defining a contacting section for mating with a complementary connector and a mounting section for mounting to a printed circuit board;
• and
• some selected and sequential contacts in an area in each row being unified together via a first transverse bar at free ends adjacent to said mating face, and a second transverse bar between the contacting section and the mounting sections;
• wherein
• a partition transverse wall located between every adjacent two passageways in said area and extending in a transverse direction perpendicular to both said vertical direction and said longitudinal direction, is removed for widening the contact sections of said some contacts.