Patent ID: 7351105

Claim:
A shielded electrical connector for mounting on a printed circuit board, comprising: a dielectric housing mounting a plurality of conductive terminals having tail portions for connection to appropriate circuit traces on the printed circuit board; a shielding shell mounted over the dielectric housing and including a top wall, opposite side walls and a rear wall, a bottom portion of the rear wall closest to the printed circuit board being configured to be connected to a grounding pad on the circuit board by a surface connection; wherein said bottom portion of the rear wall of the shell comprises a bottom edge of the rear wall; wherein said bottom edge of the rear wall is configured to be surface connected directly to the ground pad on the circuit board; and wherein said rear wall includes a pair of side legs spaced transversely to define a space therebetween which allows for visualization of the connections between the tail portions of the terminals and the circuit traces on the circuit board, the side legs having bottom edge portions surface configured to be connected directly to ground pad means on the circuit board.