Shielded electrical connector with cable strain relief

A cable connector of the type having a housing enclosed within a shield structure including integral cable strain relief, comprising:

• a dielectric housing of a selected length and including terminals disposed in passageways thereof and terminated to respective conductors of a cable;
• a first conductive shell having a body section defining a housing-receiving cavity adapted to receive said housing thereinto in a snug fit, said body section having a bottom wall including a flat tab section extending rearwardly therefrom and substantially planar with said bottom wall, said bottom wall further having a rearward tab section connected to said flat tab section and located at a cable strain relief location spaced rearwardly from said body section;
• a second conductive shell opposed from said tab section of said first shell and coextending to a rearward portion at said cable strain relief location;
• said rearward tab section being generally flat and defining a first cable-proximate surface extending between upwardly curved side edges thereof, said side edges being substantially level with said first cable-proximate surface, and
• said rearward portion of said second shell being generally flat and defining a second cable-proximate surface and including a pair of arms coextending from side edges thereof to end portions and being of a length to extend past said edges of said rearward tab section and be formed around said rearward tab section side edges and at least partially therebeneath when said rearward tab section and said rearward portion of said second shell are crimped around a jacketed portion of the cable at said cable strain relief location.