Patent ID: 7048553

Claim:
An electric connector with a tine plate, wherein, with reference to a depth direction, a width direction and a height direction all being perpendicular to each other, said electric connector comprising an insulative housing having one end face in the height direction as a bottom face opposed to a printed circuit board facing in the height direction, and a plurality of contacts provided in the insulative housing, wherein each one of the contacts has, on one end, a contact leg that extends on a rear side in the depth direction of the insulative housing and that is configured to be inserted in an insertion hole penetrating the printed circuit board in the height direction, and wherein each one of the contacts further has, on the other end opposite the contact leg, a contacting part that is configured to contact a contact of a counterpart connector, and said tine plate facing in the height direction, having the largest dimension of said tine plate between both edges in the width direction as seen in the height direction, and having a plurality of through holes penetrating through said tine plate in the height direction, wherein the contact legs are inserted in the through holes, said insulative housing having bosses on the rear side in the depth direction near the bottom face of the insulative housing, respectively at a plurality of points in the width direction, wherein the bosses protrude rearward in the depth direction or on one side in the height direction and the bosses are configured to be fitted on the printed circuit board, and said tine plate having a plurality of fitting-on parts that are configured and arranged to be fitted and are actually fitted and engaged respectively on the plurality of bosses so as to restrain a deformation of the tine plate relative to the insulative housing in the width direction.