Patent ID: 7063559

Claim:
An electrical connector for connecting a flexible printed circuit, comprising: an insulative housing defining a longitudinal direction and a mating direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and having a base portion and a mating portion extending forwardly along the mating direction from the base portion; a plurality of electrical contacts received in the insulative housing; a pair of metal ears inserted rearwardly into opposite lateral sides of the insulative housing, each metal ear being formed with a claw on an end thereof adjacent to an end of the mating portion away from the base portion in the mating direction and defining a hole on the other end thereof near the base portion; and an actuator defining an open position and a close position relative to the insulative housing and having a pair of turning shafts pivotally received in corresponding holes of the metal ear, the actuator being locked in the close position by the claws of the metal ears via pressing the actuator near the close position downwardly.