Patent ID: 7435103

Claim:
An electrical connector is for connecting an electrical element to a printed circuit board comprising: an insulative housing having a bottom floor and a plurality of side walls extending perpendicularly from the bottom floor forming in rectangular shape, the bottom floor and the side walls defining a cavity and an opening opposite the bottom floor for receiving the electrical element; and four metal plates mounted in adjacent two of the four side walls; the metal plates being flexibly abutting the electrical element against the sidewalls, each metal plate comprising a base portion fixed to the insulative housing, a spring arm extending from the base portion horizontally with respect to a corresponding side wall into the cavity, a pressing pad vertically connected to a tip end of the spring arm for flexibly abutting a side of the electrical element; and a guiding portion extending from the pressing pad; the base portions of each metal plate comprises a securing portion interferentially mating into a hole at the bottom floor defined in the insulative housing and a U-shaped clipping portion having a pair of parallel boards for clipping a portion of the side walls; a supporting board extending from the spring arm at one end and extending from a securing portion straightly at another end to be parallely abutting one of the side walls; the securing portion comprises a tab portion and a plurality of stubs extending sidewise from the tab portion.