Electrical connector having an outer shell and an inner shield to define an engaging groove

Abstract

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a mating slot; a contact module received in the insulative housing, a metallic outer shell enclosing the insulative housing and having a latching portion spaced apart from a side wall of the insulative housing, and a metallic inner shield secured between the insulative housing and the metallic outer shell, wherein the metallic inner shield has a planar portion adjacent to the side wall of the insulative housing and a pair of bulging portions at two opposite ends of the planar portion, and the latching portion of the metallic outer shell and the planar portion and the bulging portions of the metallic inner shield together define an engaging groove.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.