Usb plug connector and method for manufacturing the same

A method for manufacturing a USB (Universal Serial Bus) plug connector comprising the steps of:

• providing a plurality of contacts having a plurality of upper and lower soldering portions and insert-molding an insulative housing for retaining the contacts;
• stamping a metal piece to form a metal shield which has a top wall, a bottom wall, a front wall, and a pair of sidewalls and is substantially cross shaped at a first, unfolded state, each sidewall having a pair of protrusions respectively on an upper edge and a lower edge thereof, each of the top wall and the bottom wall having a number of cutouts correspondingly receiving the protrusions, and assembling the insulative housing to the metal shield when the metal shield is at the first, unfolded state;
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• assembling and retaining the top wall and the bottom wall onto the sidewalls so as to peripherally define a receiving space with the protrusions of the sidewalls received in the cutouts of the top wall and the bottom wall, thereby retaining the insulative housing in the receiving space of the metal shield when the metal shield is at a second, folded state.

An electrical connector comprising:

• a terminal module including an insulative housing with a plurality of conductive contacts embedded therein, said housing defining opposite upper and bottom faces in a vertical direction, a front face and two opposite side faces, a raised area formed on each of said upper and bottom faces, each of said contacts defining a front contacting section exposed upon the raised area and a rear connecting section extending outward of the housing;
• a metallic shell formed from metallic sheet with a constant thickness thereof, and forming opposite top and bottom walls with openings therein to cover the opposite top and bottom faces with the raised areas received in the openings to be exposed to an interior in the vertical direction, and a front wall linked between said opposite top and bottom walls to cover the front face in a front-to-back direction perpendicular to said vertical direction;
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• a cable located behind the terminal module and including a plurality of wires electrically connected to the rear connecting sections of the corresponding contacts, respectively.