Patent ID: 8512058
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector comprising; a housing made of insulator to be mounted on a solid circuit board and provided thereon with an opening through which a flat circuit device is inserted into the housing, a plurality of conductive contacts arranged on the housing, each of said conductive contacts having a contacting portion positioned in the housing and a connecting terminal portion projecting from the housing to the outside thereof and being operative to come into contact with a connecting terminal provided on the flat circuit device inserted in the housing through the opening provided thereon, and a conductive shell member mounted on the housing for covering partially the same and provided with a holding portion formed integrally therein to be put in engagement with the flat circuit device inserted in the housing for holding the same and with a releasing portion formed integrally therein to be manipulated to release the holding portion from the engagement with the flat circuit device inserted in the housing, wherein the holding portion extends into the inside of the housing from each of a pair of end wall portions of the conductive shell member covering respectively a pair of side end portions of the housing to be movable for engaging with the flat circuit device inserted in the housing and then disengaging from the flat circuit device inserted in the housing, and the releasing portion is connected with the conductive shell member to be movable entirely in an operating direction which intersects a direction along which the conductive contacts are arranged and provided thereon with a manipulatable part elongating in the direction along which the conductive contacts are arranged and an engaging projection operative to engage with the holding portion to move the same to be released from the engagement with the flat circuit device inserted in the housing.