Patent ID: 7635276

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing a base having a top, a bottom, a front end, a rear end and two opposite sides and further having two rows of terminal slots defined in the top of the base; two indentations defined in the top respectively adjacent to the sides and each indentation having an inner surface; two positioning recesses defined respectively in the inner surfaces of the indentations; and two hooking portions formed on the bottom respectively adjacent to the sides and each hooking portion having a hooking slit defined in the bottom and the rear end of the base; and an extension formed on and protruding forwards from the front end of the base; a plurality of terminals corresponding respectively to and mounted respectively in the terminal slots; and a metal shell covering the insulative housing to define a card space between the metal shell and the insulative housing and having a top plate located above the top of the insulative housing and having two opposite side edges and a plurality of pressing tabs formed on and protruding from the top plate towards the top of the insulative housing; and two lateral plates formed on and protruding respectively and perpendicularly downwards from the side edges of the top plate, each lateral plate having at least one mounting tab formed on and protruding substantially perpendicularly from the lateral plate and mounted in one of the indentations; a positioning tab formed on and protruding substantially perpendicularly from the lateral plate and mounted in one of the positioning recesses; and at least one slide hook mounted on the bottom of the base and slidably hooking in the hooking slit of one of the hooking portions.