Patent ID: 7857648

Claim:
An electrical connector adapted for electrically connecting an electronic package, comprising: a housing and a plurality of contacts received in the housing, the housing having a bottom wall, a plurality of rising walls rising from the bottom wall and a receiving space defined therebetween; a cover attached to a top portion of the housing and having a pair of downwardly extending side walls; and a locking mechanism comprising a locking groove defined in an exterior face of one of the rising walls of the housing, and a locking post formed on an interior face of a corresponding side wall of the cover and slidable in the locking groove between a locked position and a released position, said locking groove having an entrance and an exit, said locking post entering into said locking groove via said entrance and leaving from said locking groove via said exit, said entrance and said exit spacing a certain distance from each other; wherein said locking groove comprises an L-shaped guiding groove, said locking post sliding in the guiding groove before the cover is locked on the housing; wherein said locking groove comprises a fixing groove connected to a lower end of the guiding groove, wherein said locking post is plunged in the fixing groove and is positioned at the locked position to lock the cover on the housing; wherein said locking groove comprises an L-shaped releasing groove having a lower end connected to the fixing groove, wherein said locking post escapes from the releasing groove and arrives at the released position to release the cover from the housing; wherein said lower end of the releasing groove is deeper than the lower end of the guiding groove; wherein said rising walls of the housing has a plurality of resilient beams formed thereon for resisting against the electronic package; wherein said bottom wall of housing has an opening defined in a center thereof, said cover defining a window corresponding to the opening.