Patent ID: 8376762
Filing Date: 2013-02-19
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 and which opens on one of a first pair of opposite end portions of the housing, a plurality of conductive contacts arranged on the housing, each of which has a contacting portion positioned in the housing and a connecting terminal portion projecting from the other of the first pair of opposite end portions of the housing to the outside of the housing and the contacting portion comes into contact with a connecting terminal provided on the flat circuit device inserted in the housing through the opening provided thereon, and a shell member mounted on the housing for covering partially the same and provided with a holding portion formed in a body therein and operative to be put in engagement with the flat circuit device inserted in the housing for holding the same, a releasing portion formed in the body therein and operative to release the holding portion from the engagement with the flat circuit device inserted in the housing and a connecting portion formed in the body therein for connecting the releasing portion with the holding portion, wherein the releasing portion extends from a portion of the shell member covering one of a second pair of opposite end portions of the housing to the outside of the housing on the side of said one of the first pair of opposite end portions of the housing, the connecting portion extends to be bent from the releasing portion, and the holding portion extends to be bent from the connecting portion toward the other of the first pair of opposite end portions of the housing, so that a U-shaped portion is constituted in the shell member with the releasing portion, the connecting portion and the holding portion.