Patent ID: 7798832

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulating housing defining a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwards from a front face of the base portion; a shell assembled to the housing and defining a mating port for receiving an inserting plug in an inserting direction, into which the tongue portion extends; a plurality of contacts defining contacting portions located on one face of the tongue portion; a pair of detecting pins comprising a moveable pin and an immoveable pin, the two pins respectively defining a contacting section mating with each other and a leg section spaced from each other; the base portion of the insulating housing defining a first hole running through a mounting face thereof and the front face thereof and the moveable pin being retained in the first hole; the moveable pin defining an arc section connecting with the contacting portion and the leg portion, the arc section being received in the first hole with a front tip of the arc section projecting forwards beyond the front face; the front tip of the arc section of the moveable pin moving back into the first hole when the mating port is inserted by the inserting plug.