Patent ID: 7854625

Claim:
A connector adapted for receiving a longitudinally inserted flexible printed circuit board therein, comprising: an insulating housing defining a mouth in a front thereof which is surrounded by a bottom wall, two sidewalls and a rear wall for receiving the flexible printed circuit board therein, two insides of the sidewalls defining two receiving cavities in fronts thereof facing to each other and communicating with the mouth; a plurality of terminals disposed in the insulating housing in a transverse row, each of the terminals having a lying-U shaped base frame which has a lower arm disposed in the bottom wall, an upper arm stretching into the mouth, and a connecting prop connecting two rear ends of the upper arm and the lower arm and disposed in the rear wall, the flexible printed circuit board being inserted between the lower arms and the upper arms for electrically connecting the terminals; and an actuator pivotally mounted to the insulating housing for pivotal movement between an open position allowing the flexible printed circuit board to be inserted into the mouth and a closed position to which the actuator rotates rearward, the actuator having a base board of which a front end defines a plurality of locating slots arranged in a transverse row, a propping beam being traversed in front of the locating slots, two ends of the propping beam oppositely protruding to form a pair of pivoting portions pivoted in the corresponding receiving cavities of the insulating housing and against rear sides of the receiving cavities when the actuator is closed, front ends of the upper arms of the terminals passing through the corresponding locating slots to straddle the propping beam, a middle of the base board covering on the rear wall when the actuator is closed, a rear end of the base board protruding downward to form a locking ridge extending transversely to be restrained behind the rear wall and the connecting props of the terminals.