Patent ID: 7128610

Claim:
A shielded antenna connector comprising: an insulating housing defining an electrical terminal receiving cavity therein; an electrical terminal received in the terminal receiving cavity, the electrical terminal having a contact portion extending upward beyond the insulating housing; and a shield covering the insulating housing, a receiving space being defined between the shield and the insulating housing with said contact portion of said electrical terminal extending thereinto, said receiving space being configured to receive an antenna which is adapted to electrically contact said contact portion; wherein a pair of elastic pressing pieces is defined in the shield and slopes into the receiving space to compress tightly said antenna; wherein latch means is defined between the shield and the insulating housing for securing the shield to the insulating housing firmly; wherein the insulating housing has two sidewalls and a bottom wall, said terminal receiving housing has two sidewalls and a bottom wall, said terminal receiving cavity is defined between the two, sidewalls and the bottom wall, the shield comprises a top plate and two side plates bending downward from two opposite sides of the top plate to latch to the sidewalls of the insulating housing respectively; wherein the latch means comprises a pair of inlay pieces each formed by bending inward from a front bottom portion of each of the side plates and a pair of inlay grooves in outer surfaces of the two sidewalls extended from a front end to a rear end of the insulating housing, said inlay pieces slide into the inlay grooves respectively.