Sinking electrical connector with an improved mounting member

An electrical connector for use with a printed circuit board (PCB), comprising:

• an insulative housing receiving a plurality of contacts therein;
• and
• a metal shell enclosing the housing and including a top wall, a bottom wall opposite to the top wall, a pair of side walls bent from the top wall to the bottom wall, and a pair of mounting members located on two lateral sides thereof;
• wherein each of the mounting members has a first extending plate laterally extending from a front edge of the side wall, a second extending plate backwardly bent from the first extending plate, a third extending plate inwardly bent toward the side wall from the second extending plate, and a mounting tail downwardly therefrom for being mounted into a mounting hole of the PCB, the second extending plate is spaced away from the side wall to substantially be parallel to the side wall;
• wherein at least one of the first, the second and the third extending plates is downwardly supported on the PCB, the first, the second and the third extending plates are located above the bottom wall in an upper-to-lower direction;
• wherein the mounting tail extends downwardly from the second extending plate and is coplanar with the second extending plate in a vertical plane;
• wherein the metal shell further includes a horizontal portion, and a positioning tail bent downwardly from the horizontal portion for being mounted into another mounting hole of the PCB, the positioning tail is aligned with the mounting tail in a front-to-back direction.

An electrical connector comprising:

• an insulative housing;
• a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing;
• a metallic shell enclosing the housing to commonly define a mating port, said metallic shell including opposite upper and bottom side walls with two opposite lateral side walls linked by two sides thereof so as to form a front opening to communicate the mating port with an exterior in a front-to-back direction;
• a plurality of resilient tangs unitarily stamped and extending from the corresponding side walls of the metallic shell into the mating port;
• a pair of front mounting members unitarily extending from the shell around the front opening, respectively, each of said front mounting members defining a main plate equipped with a downwardly extending mounting post in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, and spaced, in a transverse direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction and said vertical direction, from the adjacent lateral side wall so as to form a transverse space to forgive outward deflection of the resilient tang on said corresponding lateral side wall;
• a pair of rear mounting members having thereof main plates each equipped with a downwardly extending mounting post, wherein the main plate of the front mounting member is connected to the corresponding lateral side wall via a vertical plate extending from a front edge of the corresponding lateral side wall while the main plate of the rear mounting member is connected to the corresponding lateral side wall via a horizontal plate extend from a bottom edge of the corresponding lateral side wall.