Electrical connector for mounting on PC board

摘要

An electrical connector is constructed for ease of fixing a sheet metal solder plate (25) to the bottom surface portion (70) of the connector insulator frame (12), so the solder plate can be soldered to one or more traces on a circuit board to hold down the frame. The frame has downwardly extending pegs (33-35) and the solder plate has corresponding peg-receiving holes (28-30). The mount plate forms at least one tongue (50, 51) at each of its holes, each tongue projecting against one of the pegs to form an interference fit against the peg that prevents removable of the solder plate from the insulator pegs. Each peg has a vertical slot (38, 39) that receives a nose (50, 51) at the end of the tongue.