Connector

摘要

A connector reduced in width and easily mated with a mating connector is provided. An insulative housing of a connector has a substantially rectangular mating face. Further, the metal shell has a base portion, a curved portion, and a supporting portion. The base portion upstands from a peripheral edge of the mating face extends along the peripheral edge and encloses the mating face circumferentially in a substantially rectangular shape. Further, the curved portion is continuous to an upper end of the base portion and curved inward in a semicircular shape for guiding the mating connector. Further, the supporting portion has a shape hanging from the curved portion toward the mating face along an inner wall face of the base portion for supporting the mating connector, so that the insulative housing does not have an upstanding wall extending along a side face of a longitudinally extending portion of the metal shell and the metal shell supports a widthwise inner face of the mating connector.

主权项

1. A connector comprising:
an insulative housing having a mating face; a plurality of contacts arranged in a longitudinal direction and supported by the insulative housing; and a metal shell adapted to support a widthwise inner face of a mating connector and having: (a) a base portion:
(1) extending along a peripheral edge of the mating face of the insulative housing,(2) upstanding from the peripheral edge of the mating face of the insulative housing, and(3) enclosing circumferentially the mating face of the insulative housing, (b) a curved portion continuous to an upper end of the base portion and curved inward in a semicircular shape adapted to guide a mating connector, and (c) a supporting portion:
(1) extending from the curved portion toward the mating face of the insulative housing along an inner wall face of the base portion adapted to support a mating connector,(2) extending along the peripheral edge of the mating face of the insulative housing, and(3) enclosing the mating face of the insulative housing circumferentially.