Patent ID: 8398427

Claim:
A cable assembly, comprising: a plurality of first contacts; an insulative housing molding outside the first contacts, having an upper surface and a lower surface; a plurality of second contacts received in the housing; a flat cable connecting with the first contacts and the second contacts, and the cable comprising a plurality of inner conductors arranged on upper and lower row, the upper row of the inner conductors soldered to the second contacts and the lower row of the inner conductors soldered to the first contacts; and a metallic shell comprising a bottom wall assembled on the lower surface of the housing and a pair of side walls extending upwardly from two sides of the bottom wall, and each side wall defining a lower rear portion not higher than the upper surface of the housing and a higher front portion higher than the upper surface of the housing; wherein the lower surface of the housing is shielded by the bottom wall of the metallic shell and the upper surface of the housing is not shielded by the metallic shell and communicating with an exterior directly along a vertical direction; wherein the metallic shell defines a supporting portion formed on said rear portion of the bottom wall to contact a plurality of braining layers of the flat cable respectively surrounding the plurality of inner conductors.