Electrical connector having improved conductive terminals

An electrical connector comprising:

• a terminal module comprising an insulative housing provided with a base portion and a tongue portion, an upper row of conductive terminals and a lower row of conductive terminals retained to the insulative housing, and a metallic shielding plate residing between the upper and lower rows of conductive terminals;
• each row of conductive terminals comprising a plurality of grounding terminals located on both sides of the tongue portion along a transverse direction, and a plurality of power terminals and a plurality of signal terminals located inside of the grounding terminals;
• each conductive terminal having a contacting section exposed to a surface of the tongue portion, a tail section, and a retaining section connecting the contacting section and the tail section;
• wherein an upper power terminal and a corresponding lower power terminal are an integral block structure and extending along a thickness direction of the tongue portion in the tongue portion, the contacting section of each power terminal penetrates the metallic shielding plate in the thickness direction, a thickness of the contacting section of each power terminal is not less than the thickness of the tongue portion so as to be exposed to two corresponding surfaces of the tongue portion.

An electrical connector comprising:

• an insulative housing including a base portion and a tongue portion forwardly extending from the base portion along a front-to-back direction, the tongue portion defining opposite upper and lower surfaces in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction;
• a plurality of terminals in the housing and including power terminals, the grounding terminals and signal terminals, each of said terminals including a front contacting section, a rear tail section and a middle retaining section between the front contacting section and the rear tails section;
• each of said terminals made from sheet metal by stamping and bending processes wherein a thickness of the power terminal is at least twice that of the signal terminal;
• each of said terminals including a transversely offset section and a surface-mount horizontal tail section wherein in the power terminal the corresponding transversely offset section is made via forming and the corresponding horizontal tail section is made via stamping while in the signal terminal the corresponding transversely offset section is made via stamping and the corresponding horizontal tail section is made via bending.