Patent ID: 8011948

Claim:
An electrical connector assembly for connecting with a cable, comprising: a metallic housing defining a receiving room, a pair of receiving spaces disposed at two sides of the receiving room and a pair of slits formed at two sides of the housing and respectively communicated with the pair of receiving spaces; a printed circuit board received into the receiving room and having a mating portion extending forwardly from a front surface of the housing; a pair of latches received into the corresponding receiving spaces, each latch having a base portion disposed in the receiving space, an engaging portion formed at a front end thereof and engaged with the housing and a pressing portion extending rearwardly from the base portion and out of the housing, a latching portion extending outwardly from the base portion and passing through the slit for latching with a complementary connector, an elastic portion extending inwardly and rearwardly from the base portion to urge the latching portion to extend out of the housing.