Patent ID: 7140892

Claim:
An electrical connector having a shutter at an opening provided on a front side thereof for plug-in with a mating connector, said electrical connector comprising: a housing; a shield case made of a sheet metal and fixed to an outside of said housing; at least one shutter member for opening and closing said opening of said electrical connector and having a lid moving to an open position of said shutter when said mating connector pushes said lid during said plug-in; and a pair of bias members for biasing said shutter member toward a closed position of said shutter, wherein each of said pair of bias members includes at least one resilient arm of a plate-type spring made as one body with said shield case, wherein said resilient arms extend forwardly along both side walls of said housing from an rear end of said shield case through connection portions, and said shutter member comprises said lid provided at a position corresponding to said opening and a pair of rotating arms extending backwardly along said side walls of said housing from both sides of said lid, each of said rotating arms being rotatably supported by a rotation support portion provided on said housing or said shield case, and wherein an abutting portion provided at a free end or in the vicinity of said free end of said resilient arm abuts against said rotation arm at a forward position of said rotation support portion to bias said rotation arm to said closed position.