Board to board connector

An electrical connector comprising:

• an insulative housing having a lower mounting face and an upper mating face and defining a plurality of separated cavities;
• and
• a plurality of terminals each including a soldering tail, a first retaining section secured in one sidewall of the cavity of the insulative housing, a second retaining section secured in an opposite sidewall of the cavity of the insulative housing, a contact portion curvedly extending from an upper end of the first retaining section, and a transverse portion formed between the first retaining section and the second retaining section;
• and
• a plurality of shield plates each having a protrusion for mating with a grounding trace on a printed circuit board;
• wherein the insulative housing comprises a plurality of recesses defined between the pair of receiving channels thereof for receiving the shield plates, the plurality of recesses being spaced from each other and extending through the insulative housing from the mounting face to the mating face, each recess receiving one shield plate, a pair of cutouts being formed in opposite corners of each recess for receiving the opposite edges of each shield plate.

An electrical connector comprising:

• an insulative housing defining plural pairs of cavities along a longitudinal direction thereof;
• plural pairs of terminals respectively disposed within the corresponding cavities, each pair of contacts being mirror-image with each other, each of said pair of terminals including a first vertical retaining section and a second vertical retaining section offset from each other in both vertical and horizontal directions with a transverse portion therebetween, a contact portion curvedly upwardly extending from an end of the upper retaining section, and a soldering tail horizontally extending at a lower end of the terminal;
• wherein
• said first vertical retaining section is positioned close to the contact portion and the second vertical retaining section is close to the soldering tail so as to efficiently resist forces imposed upon the contact portion and the soldering tail, respectively.