Patent ID: 7059876

Claim:
An electrical connector assembly for being mounted on a printed circuit board by a vacuum suction nozzle, comprising: a connector comprising: a dielectric housing having a mating portion, and a pair of arms extending rearwardly from opposite ends of the mating portion and defining a receiving space therebetween, the mating portion formed with a mating face facing to a complementary connector, the pair of arms comprising a mounting face facing to a corresponding printed circuit board, a rear face, and a pair of locking portions, the mating face perpendicular to the mounting face and parallel to the rear face; and a plurality of conductive contacts received in the mating portion and the receiving space; and a pick-up device made of a resilient insulative material and assembled to the connector from the rear face of the connector along a direction parallel to the mounting face and lying atop the receiving space of the connector, comprising: a rectangular base having a substantially planar, smooth upper surface adapted to be grasped by the suction nozzle, an opposite lower surface; a pair of retaining portions depending down from the lower surface releasably engaged with the pair of arms of the connector; and a tab protruding upwardly from a longitudinal edge of the upper surface of the base.