Electrical connector assembly with an integrated circuit module

An electrical connector assembly comprising:

• an insulative housing defining a vertical base with a horizontal mating tongue extending forwardly therefrom along a front-to-back direction;
• a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing, each of said contacts defining a front contact portion exposed upon the mating tongue, a rear soldering portion exposed rearwardly behind the base, and a connecting portion located between the front contact portion and the rear soldering portion in said front-to-back direction;
• and
• upper and lower half shells respectively located upon an upper part and a lower part of the housing in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, and commonly enclosing the housing, each of said upper half shell and said lower half shell defining mounting pads wherein the mounting pads define a mounting plane coplanar with the soldering portions of the contacts for mounting to a printed circuit board;
• wherein
• an integrated circuit board is assembled to the connection portions under an arrangement that when the integrated circuit board is assembled in a horizontal manner relative to the housing, the integrated circuit board is essentially located above the mounting plane;
• alternately, when the integrated circuit board is assembled in a vertical manner relative to the housing, said integrated circuit board downwardly extends below the mounting plane.

An electrical connector assembly comprising:

• an insulative housing including a vertical base and a horizontal mating tongue extending forwardly from the base;
• a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing, each of said contacts defining a front contact portion exposed upon the mating tongue, a rear soldering portion exposed rearwardly behind the base, and a connecting portion located between the front contact portion and the rear soldering portion in said front-to-back direction;
• upper and lower half shells respectively located upon an upper part and a lower part of the housing in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, and commonly enclosing the housing, each of said upper half shell and said lower half shell defining mounting pads wherein the mounting pads define a mounting plane coplanar with the soldering portions of the contacts for mounting to a printed circuit board, said upper half shell defining an anchor portion;
• and
• an integrated circuit board assembled to the connection portions;
• wherein
• a front face of said anchor portion confronts the base and a rear face of said anchor portion confronts the integrated circuit board in said front-to-back direction.