Electrical connector having improved conductive terminals

An electrical connector for use with a complementary plug connector, comprising:

• an insulative housing including a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion, said tongue portion including a main thinner section and a rear thicker section along a front-to-back direction, the main thinner section forming a pair of opposite mating surfaces in the vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction;
• two rows of terminals disposed in the housing, each said terminals including a front contacting section, a rear tail section and a retaining section between the contacting section and the tail section, the front contacting section being exposed upon the corresponding mating surface;
• a pair of metallic flakes discrete from and located between the two rows of terminals in the vertical direction and spaced from each other in a transverse direction perpendicular to both said front-to-back direction and said vertical direction, each of said flakes forming a locking notch exposed upon a corresponding lateral side of the tongue portion;
• and
• in each row of terminals, an interval between every adjacent two terminals measured along said transverse direction, being not all equal, and at least one vacant space formed between two outermost adjacent terminals of which one is an inner grounding terminal and the other is an outer power terminal;
• wherein
• the inner power terminal includes a widened section extending laterally toward the outer grounding terminal in the transverse direction to occupy said vacant space, and an outer surface of said widened section is offset from that of the contacting section of the inner power terminal in the vertical direction for not being exposed upon the corresponding mating surface for not mistakenly contacting corresponding contacts of the complementary plug connector.

An electrical connector for use with a complementary plug connector, comprising:

• an insulative housing including a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion, said tongue portion including a main thinner section and a rear thicker section along a front-to-back direction, the main thinner section forming a pair of opposite mating surfaces in the vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction;
• two rows of terminals disposed in the housing, each said terminals including a front contacting section, a rear tail section and a retaining section between the contacting section and the tail section, the front contacting section being exposed upon the corresponding mating surface;
• and
• in each row of terminals, an interval between every adjacent two terminals measured along said transverse direction, being not all equal, and at least one vacant space formed between two outermost adjacent terminals of which one is an inner grounding terminal and the other is an outer power terminal;
• wherein
• the inner power terminal includes a widened section extending laterally toward the outer grounding terminal in a transverse direction perpendicular to both said front-to-back direction and said vertical direction to occupy said vacant space, and an outer surface of said widened section is offset from that of the contacting section of the inner power terminal in the vertical direction for not being exposed upon the corresponding mating surface for not mistakenly contacting corresponding contacts of the complementary plug connector;
• wherein
• a thickness of the widened section is smaller than that of the contacting section of the inner power terminal in the vertical direction.