Electrical connector with reliably assembled shield and housing

Abstract

An electrical connector (100) has an insulative housing (8), a plurality of terminals (9) received in the housing and a metal shield (7). The housing has a body portion (81) and two side portions (82) formed respectively on lateral sides of the body portion. Each side portion has a passage (821) extending therethrough and a notch (822) in communication with the passage. The shield has two retentive tabs (731) respectively projecting through corresponding passages with free ends thereof received in corresponding notches of the housing. The terminals have vertical contacting sections (91), vertical connecting sections (93), horizontal retention sections (92) connecting the contacting sections with the connecting sections, and soldering sections (94) extending horizontally from the connecting sections.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.