Patent ID: 8403683

Claim:
A card edge connector, comprising: an insulative housing defining a front mating face and a central slot recessed rearwardly from the mating face; a plurality of contacts retained in the insulative housing and each having a contact portion exposed into the central slot for mating with a complementary connector and a solder tail exposed to outside of the housing; a cover assembled to a rear side of the housing, and a spacer sandwiched between the housing and the cover along a front-to-rear direction, the spacer defining a plurality of through holes through which the solder tails of the contacts pass; wherein the cover includes a top wall, and a rear wall extending downwardly and perpendicularly from the top wall, the rear wall abuts forwardly against a rear end of the spacer, and the spacer has a bottom surface disposed not lower than a bottom surface of the rear wall along an upper-to-lower direction.