Patent ID: 6932622

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing having a bottom wall, a plurality of sidewalls extending upwardly from the bottom wall and a receiving space cooperatively defined by the bottom wall and the sidewalls for accommodating an electrical package therein; a plurality of contacts received in the housing; and at least one protrusion member formed on the sidewalls of the housing, said protrusion member protruding facing toward the receiving space, to engagingly guide insertion of a lateral side of the package into the receiving space when the opposite lateral side of the package is received in the receiving space and protect the sidewalls of the housing from being scraped during the inserting of the package into the housing; wherein a through hole under the protrusion member is defined in the bottom wall of the housing, the through hole having a slightly larger transverse dimension than the protrusion member for facilitating the molding of the protrusion member; and wherein the protrusion member forms an abutting surface toward the receiving space at a free lateral end thereof, the vertical surface abutting against the lateral side of the package during insertion the package into the housing.