Patent ID: 7963800

Claim:
An electrical connector, adapted for being mounted to a printed circuit board, comprising: a housing of rectangular shape, a front edge of a periphery of the housing protruded outward to form a flange; a plurality of terminals received in the housing; a shell surrounding the housing, the shell having a bottom board, a top board and two side boards, front edges of the bottom board, the top board and the side boards abutting against the flange; and a bracket having a base board, two opposite ends of the base board extending downward to form two blocking boards, bottoms of the blocking boards extending outward to form two soldering boards, the base board of the bracket mounted on the top board of the shell, the blocking boards mounted on the two side boards, front edges of the base board and the blocking boards of the bracket abutting against the flange; wherein a top wall of the housing has two first protrusions protruded upward from two spaced portions of a front thereof, rears of the first protrusions define two first inserting grooves, a front of the top board defines two holding grooves spaced apart from each other for receiving the two first protrusions, middles of rear ends of the holding grooves extend forward to form two first inserting pieces inserted into the first inserting grooves, and a middle of a front of the base board defines two locking grooves spaced from each other for receiving the two first protrusions.