Patent ID: 8758057

Claim:
A cable-to-board connector, comprising: a plug connector adapted for connecting with a cable, the plug connector including a plug housing having a base portion and a tongue portion protruded forward from a front of the base portion, the tongue portion defining an inserting groove having a front opened freely, the plug housing defining two rows of plug terminal grooves of which each has a rear thereof penetrating through the base portion and a front thereof penetrating through a top wall or a bottom wall of the tongue portion, a plurality of plug terminals each received in the plug terminal groove with a rear end thereof being fastened in the rear of the plug terminal groove and connected with the cable, and a front end thereof being exposed out from the top wall or the bottom wall, and a plug shielding shell of an integrative structure surrounding the base portion of the plug housing, at least two buckling blocks protruding oppositely from two outer surfaces of two opposite sides of the plug shielding shell; and a receptacle connector adapted for being soldered on a circuit board and engaged with the plug connector, the receptacle connector including a receptacle housing having a front wall, two lateral walls, an upper wall and a lower wall which are interconnected to form a receiving space thereamong for receiving the tongue portion therein, an inserting portion protruding rearward from an inner face of the front wall to be inserted into the inserting groove, the receptacle housing defining two rows of receptacle terminal grooves of which each has one side thereof passing through an inner face of the upper wall or the lower wall, and the front wall, and the other side thereof passing through a side surface of the inserting portion facing the inner face of the upper wall or the lower wall, and the front wall, a plurality of receptacle terminals received in the receptacle terminal grooves respectively, each receptacle terminal having a soldering portion projecting out of the receptacle housing to be soldered on the circuit board, one end of the soldering portion defining two contact portions spaced from each other and respectively inserted into the two sides of the receptacle terminal groove to contact with the front end of the corresponding plug terminal, and a receptacle shielding shell looped from a metal plate with a receptacle accommodating space being formed therein, the receptacle housing being inserted in a front of the receptacle accommodating space of the receptacle shielding shell, each side of the receptacle shielding shell defining at least one second buckling hole, a rear inner periphery of the receptacle shielding shell being attached to a front outer periphery of the plug shielding shell with the buckling blocks being buckled in the second buckling holes, at least two soldering arms bending outward from a periphery front of the receptacle shielding shell to be soldered on the circuit board.