Patent ID: 7963798

Claim:
An electrical connector for mounting on a top surface of a printed circuit board, comprising: an insulating housing defining a front surface, a rear surface, a top surface and a mounting surface perpendicularly connecting with the front surface and the rear surface, the front surface providing a plurality of contact receiving cavities spaced from one another, a pair of slots defined in two opposite ends of the housing, the slot extending downwardly from the top surface through the mounting surface, a longitudinal groove formed on the top surface and extending along a direction perpendicular to the frontward and rearward direction with two ends connecting the slots respectively, a transversal groove formed on the top surface and intersecting the longitudinal groove perpendicularly with a common center portion, a narrow hole defined in the transversal groove; a plurality of contacts received in the contact receiving cavities respectively; a locking member having a main beam and a pair of straight mounting legs, the mounting legs extending downwardly from two ends of the main beam respectively and being parallel to each other, two spaced engaging projections formed at opposite sides of a distal end of the mounting leg and extending outside, the main beam having a fixed portion extended downwardly from a portion thereof; wherein each mounting leg of the locking member passes through the slot of the housing from the top surface to the mounting surface, the distal end of the mounting leg extends out of the mounting surface and then passes an opening of the printed circuit board aligning with the slot of the housing, the engaging projection bears against a bottom surface of the printed circuit board, the main beam of the locking member is secured in the longitudinal groove of the housing which is sized to receive and retain the main beam, the fixed portion is secured in the narrow hole of the housing.