Patent ID: 7445503
Filing Date: 2008-11-04
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector adapted for mounting to a circuit substrate, comprising: an insulated housing having a primary body portion including a top wall, a bottom wall and a pair of side walls interconnecting with the top wall and the bottom wall to cooperatively form a hollow portion; a plurality of terminals received in the insulated housing; a metal shell including an upper wall and a pair of transversal walls extending downwardly from two opposite side edges of the upper wall to form a substantially inverted U-shaped body portion, said metal shell further having a pair of arms extending rearward from rear edges of the transversal walls respectively and a spring member slantways extending downward and rearward from rear edge of the upper wall; and wherein the insulated housing further has a pair of enforcing beams attached to the lower sections thereof and extending beyond a front face of the insulated housing; wherein the insulated housing is assembled between the arms of the metal shell, with the body portion of the metal shell located forwardly of the insulated housing and the spring member of the metal shell located above of the insulated housing; and wherein each of the pair of enforcing beams defines a passage along a mating direction sandwiching lower sections of the corresponding arm and the transversal wall of the metal shell.