Patent ID: 7841901

Claim:
An electrical connector assembly for mating with a complementary connector, comprising: an insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue portion extending from said base portion; a plurality of contacts assembled in a plurality of recesses defined in the housing, each of said contacts having a front contact portion, a connecting portion adjacent to the contact portion, and a rear soldering tail adjoined to the connecting portion; a shield case enclosing said housing; and an integrated circuit module; wherein, said integrated circuit module is electrically connected to said connecting portions of the contacts and located between the soldering tails of the contacts and a rear side of the shield case; wherein the shield case includes a top shell and a bottom shell, each of the top shell and the bottom shell having a lock portion interlocked with each other; wherein the interlocked lock portions of the top shell and the bottom are coplanar; wherein one of the top shell and the bottom shell defines a pair of slots, and the other one defines a pair of projections received in the slots.