Patent ID: 7597576

Claim:
An electrical connector assembly comprising: an electrical connector including an insulative housing defining opposite mating and mounting faces with a plurality of passageways extending and further through both said mating and mounting faces; a plurality of contact terminals arranged within each of the passageways, each of said terminals including an mating portion extending beyond of the mating face, and a mounting portion extending beyond the mounting face; a printed circuit board fastened to a mounting side of the connector and mechanically and electrically connected to the mounting portions of the terminals; and a hard disk drive casing defining a through opening between thereof opposite mating and mounting surfaces with at least a locking recess communicative with the through opening and around the mating surface; wherein the connector is equipped with at least one anchoring member, and the connector is essentially disposed in the through opening with the anchoring member latched into the locking recess so as to prevent the connector and the associated printed circuit board from being dropped away from the hard disk drive casing in a first direction, under a condition that the printed circuit board defines a horizontal dimension larger than those of the both said connector and said through opening so as to prevent the connector with the associated printed circuit board from being excessive moving with regard to the hard disk drive casing through said through opening in a second direction opposite to said first direction.