Patent ID: 7044778

Claim:
A connector to be mounted on a circuit board having a ground pattern, said connector comprising a contact made of a conductive member and having a contacting portion and a terminal portion, a housing holding said contact and defining a fitting direction of said connector, a shell coupled to said housing for electro-magnetically shielding said contact, and a connecting member assembled to said housing and having conductivity for electrically connecting with said ground pattern, said shell comprising: a first shell having conductivity and assembled to said housing in said fitting direction to surround said contacting portion of the contact; and a second shell having conductivity and assembled to said housing in a particular direction orthogonal to said fitting direction, said second shell covering said terminal portion of the contact and clamping said housing and said connecting member in said fitting direction, said first shell being in contact with said second shell and being fixed to said connecting member, wherein said second shell has a plate portion clamped between said connecting member and said first shell in said fitting direction.