Patent ID: 7841869

Claim:
A connector for a board comprising: a connector housing including a hood section adapted to be coupled to a mating connector; an inner wall disposed on an inner part of said hood section of said connector housing and provided with a plurality of through-holes; and a plurality of terminal metals inserted into said through-holes, an end of each of said terminal metals being inserted into each of said through-holes to be disposed in said hood section and the other end of each terminal metal being drawn out from each of said through-holes to be connected to a circuit board; and a plurality of protrusions extending outwardly from said inner wall, said protrusions being fewer in number than said through-holes, every other through-hole in a row of the through-holes being surrounded by one of the protrusions, and the through-holes in between the protrusions not being surrounded by protrusions, the protrusions of one row being offset with respect to protrusions of an adjacent row such that the protrusions of both rows are staggered, the protrusions being in a recess that is defined by walls that exist at front, rear, right and left sides of the protrusions.