Patent ID: 6910921
Filing Date: 2005-06-28
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing extending in a longitudinal direction and defining a pair of side external faces and a bottom face along said longitudinal direction; a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing, each of the contacts defining a surface mounting tails around the bottom face; a plurality of protrusions formed on at least one of the side external faces; a metal shell attached to said at least one of the side external faces by means of said protrusions; wherein a bottom edge section of said metal shell is upwardly recessed, around at least one of a distal end section thereof along said longitudinal direction, to be spaced from the corresponding surface mounting tails with a distance larger than that between other portions of the bottom edge section thereof and the corresponding surface mounting tails in a vertical direction for avoid electrically shorting; wherein said distal end section extends in a cantilever manner along said longitudinal direction; wherein said shell further includes a plurality of grounding fingers downwardly extending from the bottom edge section in said vertical direction between two distal ends of thereof.