Patent ID: 8974252
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector, comprising: an insulating housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, a rear wall and two side walls which together surround an inserting chamber thereamong, the top wall and the bottom wall respectively defining a plurality of first terminal grooves and second terminal grooves which are opened symmetrically about the inserting chamber and communicate with the inserting chamber, the first terminal grooves and the second terminal grooves being arranged at regular intervals along transverse directions of the top wall and the bottom wall respectively and each extending along a longitudinal direction to further penetrate rearward through the rear wall of the insulating housing; a plurality of terminals including a plurality of first terminals and a plurality of second terminals, the first terminals each having a first fastening strip, a first elastic portion and a first soldering portion which are connected with two opposite ends of the first fastening strip, the second terminals each having a second fastening strip, a second elastic portion and a second soldering portion which are connected with two opposite ends of the second fastening strip; and a shielding shell enclosing the insulating housing; wherein the first and second terminals are respectively inserted frontward in the first and second terminal grooves of the insulating housing to be arranged in two rows in vertical direction, the first fastening strips of the first terminals are fixed in the first terminal grooves, the first elastic portions project downward into the inserting chamber, the first soldering portions have distal ends thereof project rearward behind the rear wall, the second fastening strips of the second terminals are fixed in the second terminal grooves, the second elastic portions project upward into the inserting chamber and are symmetrical with the first elastic portions in structure and arrangement about the inserting chamber, the second soldering portions have distal ends thereof project downward under the rear wall.