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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1999
ZiQiang Zhu, KunSan, CN;
Zhiquan Mou, Kunsan, CN;
Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd., Taipei Hsien, TW;
Abstract
An electrical connector according to the present invention comprises a dielectric housing, a plurality of terminals, a front shell and a rear shell. The dielectric housing has an upper portion, a pair of lateral faces, a central portion, and a projecting portion extending forward from a front end of the central portion. Each terminal comprises a contacting portion for being received in the projecting portion of the dielectric housing and a soldering tail for being connected to a printed circuit board. The front shell has a front wall with a front section projecting forwardly therefrom for receiving a mating plug therein. A pair of lateral walls and a pair of retention arms rearwardly extend from, respectively, side edges of the front wall and from a top edge of the front wall. The lateral walls and retention walls have latches, apertures and cutouts for engaging with the dielectric housing and the rear shell. The rear shell comprises a top wall, two side wall and a rear wall, a latching hole being defined in each side wall for interconnection with the front shell, three latching legs depending from the sides of the rear shell for securely mounting the electrical connector to a printed circuit board.