Patent ID: 9160098
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector, comprising: an insulating housing having a base portion, a front of the base portion extending frontward to form a tongue board having a smaller dimension than the base portion, a top face of the tongue board being concaved downward and extended rearward to form a plurality of upper terminal grooves, a bottom face of the tongue board being concaved upward and extended rearward to form a plurality of lower terminal grooves, the upper terminal grooves and the lower terminal grooves further penetrating downward through a bottom face of the base portion of the insulating housing; a plurality of electrical terminals including a plurality of upper terminals and a plurality of lower terminals, the upper terminals and the lower terminals being respectively held in the upper terminal grooves and the lower terminal grooves of the insulating housing; a shielding shell enclosing the insulating housing, the shielding shell having a top plate, a bottom plate and two side plates which corporately define a receiving chamber for receiving the insulating housing and the electrical terminals therein, a front of the bottom plate of the shielding shell being opened with a pair of through slots, the through slots penetrating through top and bottom faces of the bottom plate; an external housing molded outside the insulating housing and the shielding shell, the external housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, a rear wall and two side walls which corporately define a receiving space for receiving the insulating housing and the shielding shell therein, a front of a bottom face of the bottom wall of the external housing being concaved upward to form a holding cavity, a top face of the holding cavity being further concaved upward to form a pair of through holes corresponding to the through slots of the shielding shell; and a water-proof assembly held in the bottom wall of the external housing, the water-proof assembly including a buckling element, a holding element and a locking element, the buckling element being molded around a bottom part of the holding element, the locking element being molded in the holding element and having a pair of elastic arms projecting above the holding element, the water-proof assembly being held in the holding cavity of the external housing and the elastic arms of the locking element elastically projecting into the receiving chamber through the through holes of the external housing and the through slots of the shielding shell.