Patent ID: 7568954

Claim:
An electrical connector to be mounted on a peripheral panel, comprising: an insulative housing defining a mating face, a mounting face, a top wall, a bottom wall, a pair of side walls interconnecting the top wall and the bottom wall, and a receiving cavity extending through the mating face to receive a mating plug, an ear portion extending laterally from the side wall, a flat retaining plate extending outwardly from the side wall and being coplanar with top wall, a screw hole extending through the ear portion; a plurality of contacts retained in the housing; and a spring tab retained in the side wall, the side wall include a cutout on an upper portion thereof and a slit located beneath the cutout, the spring tab defines a inwardly curved portion extending into the receiving cavity, and a pair of fixing ends on opposite sides of the curved portion and being retained in the slit.