Patent ID: 6899565

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising a conductive contact, an insulator holding the contact and adapted to be mounted to a substrate, a conductive cover member held by the insulator, and a conductive holddown held by the insulator to connect the cover member and a ground conductor portion of the substrate, wherein: the insulator has a base portion holding the contact and a side wall portion extending from the base portion; the cover having a cover main plate portion faced to the base portion, a cover side plate portion extending from one side of the cover main plate portion to face an outer surface of the side wall portion, a first cover contacting portion formed on the cover main plate portion in the vicinity of the cover side plate portion, and a second cover contacting portion formed on the cover side plate portion; at least one of the first and the second cover contacting portions having elastic restoring force; the holddown having a holddown contacting portion extending across the side wall portion to the outside of the side wall portion to face the outer surface of the side wall portion; the holddown contacting portion being located between the first and the second cover contacting portions and clamped by the first and the second cover contacting portions in a direction along the outer surface of the side wall portion.