Patent ID: 6887106
Filing Date: 2005-05-03
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A shielding connector having a female housing and a male housing to be fitted on said female housing, each of said female and said male housings comprising: an outer housing and an inner housing suspended in the outer housing by a connection, the inner housing accommodating terminal fittings connected to an end of a shielding electric wire; and a metal shell having a rear end for contacting a braided wire of said shielding electric wire, the metal shell being inserted into a rear end of said outer housing and being mounted on a periphery of said inner housing, the metal shell having a front end with at least one slit for receiving said connection, a resiliently deformable contact plate being raised from said female metal shell at a portion near said front end of said female metal shell and projecting outwardly towards said male metal shell for contacting an inner surface of said male metal shell, said front end of said female metal shell forward from said contact plate being folded inwardly to contact a peripheral surface of said inner housing on which said female metal shell is mounted, wherein said female and male housings being fit together so that the respective terminal fittings thereof are connected, and so that projected ends of said metal shells of said female and male housings telescope together and cover the connection between the respective terminal fittings for electromagnetically shielding said terminal fittings, and said slits of said metal shells of said female and male housings being offset from each other.