Electrical connector assembly wth improved latching mechanism

Abstract

An electrical connector assembly (1) for connecting with a cable (7), comprises a metallic housing (2) defining a receiving room (23), a pair of receiving spaces disposed at two sides of the receiving room and a pair of slits formed at two sides of the housing and respectively communicated with the pair of receiving spaces. A printed circuit board (3) is received into the receiving room and has a mating portion (31) extending forwardly from a front surface of the housing. A pair of latches (4) received into the corresponding receiving spaces, each latch having a base portion (41) disposed in the receiving space, an engaging portion (42) formed at a front end thereof and engaged with the housing and a pressing portion (43) extending rearwardly from the base portion and out of the housing, a latching portion (411) extending outwardly from the base portion and passing through the slit for latching with a complementary connector, an elastic portion (412) extending inwardly and rearwardly from the base portion to urge the latching portion extending out of the housing.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.