Electrical connector with improved shielding plate defining grounding terminals

Abstract

An electrical connector includes: a housing extending along a longitudinal direction; two rows of conductive terminals retained in the housing, each row of conductive terminals comprising plural signal terminals and plural grounding terminals, each conductive terminal comprising a plate portion and a leg portion extending out of the housing, the plate portion defining an exposed outer face and an opposite inner face, the outer face defining a mating face; plural metal shielding plates being located inside the ground terminals in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the metal shielding plates being disposed between corresponding signal terminals of the two rows of conductive terminals in the transverse direction; and a metal connecting plate integrally connecting the plural grounding terminals and the plurality of metal shielding plates.

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