Electrical connector with an improved grounding member

An electrical connector comprising:

• a longitudinal insulating housing comprising two side walls and a mating slot between the two side walls, the mating slot defining a mating opening;
• and
• two rows of terminals located at the two side walls, each row of terminals comprising plural pairs of signal terminals and plural grounding terminals, each terminal comprising an elastic arm with a contacting portion protruding into the mating slot and proximate to the mating opening, a tail portion, and a middle fixing portion between the elastic arm and the tail portion;
• wherein the side wall has plural first slots and plural second slots proximate to the mating opening, the contacting portions of each pair of signal terminals are exposed to a corresponding first slot, and the contacting portion of each grounding terminal is exposed to a corresponding second slot.

An electrical connector comprising:

• an insulating housing having two side walls and a longitudinal mating slot between the two side walls;
• a row of terminals located at the side wall and comprising plural pairs of signal terminals and plural grounding terminals in a longitudinal direction, each terminal comprising an elastic arm with a contacting portion, a tail portion and a middle fixing portion between the elastic arm and the tail portion;
• and
• a grounding member located between the side wall and the row of the terminals and extending in the longitudinal direction;
• wherein the grounding member comprises plural grounding portions extending inwards and contacting corresponding grounding terminals and plural attached portions extending outwards, and the attached portions are aligned with corresponding grounding portions in a transverse direction perpendicular to the side walls.