Pick up cap for use with socket connector having plug covering opening

摘要

A socket connector has a pick up cap (3) cooperated with lateral shields (4) is provided. The pick up cap (3) has a base plate (30) and a plateau (31) surrounded by the base plate (30). The main purpose of the lateral shields is used for covering seams both on a base plate (30) and under raised portions (32) on opposite sidewalls of the plateau (31). As soon as the seams are covered by the lateral shields (4), paths of particles in air possibly contaminating a plurality of contact terminals restrained in passageways of an insulative housing are able to effectively blocked. Therefore, problems either about reliability or circuit open caused by contaminated socket connector is successfully solved.