Patent ID: 9240640
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: H01R

Claim Text:
1. An electrical connector comprising: an elongated insulative housing defining a card receiving slot extending along a longitudinal direction and forwardly exposed to an exterior in an oblique direction relative to a horizontal bottom face of the housing; a pair of tower portions extending forwardly and obliquely from two opposite ends of the housing; a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections extending into the card receiving slot and tail sections extending outwardly around said bottom face of the housing, each of said contacts including tail sections arranged in four rows categorized with opposite front and rear rows commonly sandwiching two middle rows therebetween in a front-to-back direction perpendicular to said longitudinal direction, each of said four rows extending along the longitudinal direction; and a planar metallic board retainer configured and upwardly assembled to the housing along a vertical direction, which is perpendicular to both said longitudinal direction and said front-to-back direction, from the horizontal bottom face, and lying in a vertical plane perpendicular to said longitudinal direction, and defining an asymmetrical configuration essentially having, in said vertical plane, a board lock portion on one side and a retaining portion on the other side opposite to each other in the front-to-back direction; wherein the board lock portion is dimensioned and positioned to be generally aligned with the tail sections of the two middle rows of said four rows, and the retaining portion is located in front of the board lock portion in said front-to-back direction adjacent to the front row.