Patent ID: 6468094
Filing Date: 2002-10-22
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
An electrical connector for electrically connecting an electronic card to a motherboard, comprising:an insulative housing defining an elongated body with a pair of side arms extending at two opposite ends thereof, each of said side arms defining a card receiving slot and a locking slot therein; a plurality of contacts secured to the housing; a metal shield shielding the top of the housing; and a pair of grounding plates having base portions engaged to the housing, mating portions connecting with the base portions and adapted to be soldered to the motherboard, and locking portions engaged to the locking slots of the housing to force the housing downward the motherboard; wherein each side arm defines a first depressed surface at a free end thereof stepped with the top surface thereof, the locking slots being defined at the first depressed surface; wherein each side arm defines a second depressed surface at the free end thereof stepped with the first depressed surface and closer to a bottom surface thereof relative to the first depressed surface, and a receiving slot formed in an inner face of each of said side arms and interrupt the corresponding card receiving slot at the second depressed surface thereof parallel to a corresponding locking slot, the receiving slot receiving the base portion of one of the pair of grounding plates; wherein the locking portions of the grounding plates include hooks at free ends thereof retained within the locking slots of the housing, and necks between the hooks and the base portions for tightly pressing at the first depressed surfaces of the housing; wherein the hook of the grounding plates define a plurality of protrusions at two opposite sides thereof engaged to inner walls of the locking slots of the housing.