Patent ID: 7927142

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing having a base and a tongue extending forwardly from the base; a plurality of contacts retained in the insulative housing; and a metal shell covering the insulative housing, the metal shell having a pair of opposed top and bottom walls, and a pair of side walls connecting the top and bottom walls together, the top wall, bottom wall and side walls defining a receiving space therebetween; wherein the tongue extends into the receiving space, the bottom wall having two first walls extending opposed to each other from a lower end of the side walls, two oblique second walls extending inwardly and upwardly from two first walls, and a third wall connecting two second walls together, the third wall is higher than the second walls along an up to down direction; wherein a front end of the tongue defines a width which is approximately same to that of the third wall along a transverse direction of the insulative housing, the first walls and second walls each defines a width which is smaller than that of the third wall; wherein the third wall has a pair of spring arms extending into the receiving space.