Electrical connector with an improved shell having a vertical blade to perform a shielding function

An electrical connector comprising:

• an insulative body defining at least one mating port in communication with an exterior along a front-to-back direction;
• a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing and including two pairs of differential pair contacts commonly sandwiching a grounding contact therebetween in a transverse direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, each of said contacts defining a front mating section and a rear connecting section;
• a cable enclosing two STP (Shielded Twisted Pair) wires each including differential pair wires and a drain wire wrapped within a shielding foil except a front portion, wherein front sections of the differential pair wires are respectively mechanically and electrically connected to the rear connecting sections of the corresponding differential pair contacts while the drain wire is mechanically and electrically connected to the rear connecting section of said grounding contact;
• and
• a metallic shell enclosing said housing and a front portion of the cable;
• wherein
• said shell unitarily forms a blade extending into a space between the exposed front portions of said two STP wires in said transverse direction, where no shielding foils exists, to reduce crosstalk between said two STP wires;
• wherein the blade extends with a distance beyond one half of the exposed front portion of each of said two STP wires at least partially in a vertical direction which is perpendicular to both said front-to-back direction and said transverse direction;
• wherein the shell includes a front part and a rear part, the blade is stamped from the shell part with a corresponding through opening in the vertical direction while the front shell forms a rearward extension to shield said through opening in said vertical direction.