Patent ID: 7217158

Claim:
An electrical connector, comprising: a housing having a terminal retention section and a plugging section extending forwardly from said terminal retention section, and a plurality of terminals each having a contact section being molded onto said plugging section with a predetermined interval for electrically connecting to a resiliently projecting contact section of a mating connector when the electrical connector is plugged to the mating connector, wherein said electrical connector is a plug connector to be connected to a receptacle connector in a direction parallel to a circuit board on which said receptacle connector is provided, said plugging section having a plurality of grooves aligned with said contact section, each of said grooves having a depth sufficiently deep to house an entire portion of each said contact section therein and guide each said resiliently projecting contact section of said mating receptacle connector, said terminal retention section integrally molded with intermediate sections of said terminals for support, wherein said electrical connector further comprises a shield case having substantially U-shaped side edges to cover a top and side faces of and only side edges of a bottom face of said plugging section so that said electrical connector can receive an arranging plate of said mating connector in a bottom space of said plugging section.