Patent ID: 7798853
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector comprising: an insulative base having a mating tongue, a compartment extending from the mating tongue, and a plurality of passageways extending from the compartment to a mating surface of the mating tongue; a plurality of contacts assembled to the passageways, and each contact including a contact portion exposed on the mating surface of the mating tongue, and a rear portion facing toward the compartment; and a printed circuit board with at least one noise-suppressing device, disposed within the compartment and electrically interconnected with the rear portions of the contacts; wherein the base has a mounting portion with a bottom plate and two side walls extending upwardly from two sides of the bottom plate to define the compartment; wherein several channels are formed in interior face faces of the side walls and the printed circuit board slides into the compartment under guidance of the channels; wherein the rear portion of the contacts which the level position is higher than the bottom level of the channel under the contacts received in the passageways; wherein the printed circuit board presses against the rear portions of the contacts to fix the contacts in the base; wherein each passageway extends from the bottom surface of the compartment through the mounting portion to the tongue and rear portion of the contacts are exposed to the compartment; wherein each of said contacts defines a locking device for retaining the contact to the housing and said locking device is located behind a front edge of the printed circuit board in a front-to-back direction; wherein the electrical connector further comprises an insulative cover and a metal shell, said base enclosed by the metal shell and the insuative cover partly receiving the metal shell; and wherein the base further comprises a step portion connecting the tongue with the mounting portion and a scoop channel defined in the step portion, said metal shell locks with the scoop channel.