Patent ID: 6971891

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing comprising: a base, a pair of sidewalls and a pair of end walls projecting from the base; a mating portion is defined between the base, the sidewalls and the end walls; and a first engaging portion is formed at each end wall; a plurality of terminals received in the insulative housing; a positioning plate for aligning a plurality of tail ends of the terminals is mounted to the base; and a shutter movably assembled to the insulative housing to close and open the mating portion of the insulative housing, the shutter comprising a second engaging portion mating with the first engaging portion to guide and limit the shutter to slide between a closed position and an open position in a substantially common plane perpendicular to a mating direction; wherein the shutter comprises a pair of shutter members and a pair of coil springs, each coil spring is located at each of the pair of end walls, each coil spring connects two shutter members with two ends fixed to two shutter members in same ends respectively; wherein the pair of coil springs urges the pair of shutter members to the closed position.