Board mounted electrical connector

Claim 1

An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing having a top wall, a bottom wall and a pair of side walls defining a receiving space therebetween adapted for receiving a mating connector therein, a pair of protruding portions outwardly projecting from the side walls and a groove defmed in one side of each protruding portion; a pair of slots formed above said receiving space for detachably receiving a pair of LEDs therein; a one-piece shield enclosing the housing, said shield including a front shield portion and a rear shielding portion integrally formed with said front shield portion, said front shield portion including a top panel, two side panels downwardly depending from two opposite side edges of said top panel, two front panels bending perpendicularly toward each other from front edges of the side panels, respectively, a pair of support tabs formed at lower edges of opposite side panels of the front shield portion to fit into the grooves of the protruding portions on the housing thereby fixing the side panels to the housing in a direction normal to the side walls of the housing; and a pair of front flaps downwardly extending from a front edge of said top panel; wherein a cutout is defined around said front edge of said top panel between said pair of front flaps, and each of said front flaps defines an opening therein in alignment with the corresponding LED to expose said LED to an exterior; wherein a notch is defined in each support tab and the support tab interlocks at the notch with the protruding portion at the groove so that the support tab abuts a bottom side of the protruding portion of the housing thereby arresting upward movement of the side panels relative to the housing, as well as arresting outward movement of the side panels along a direction normal to the side walls of the housing; wherein the rear shield portion forms two side portions extending from opposite sides thereof and a pair of rectangular tabs projecting perpendicularly from each side portion at upper and lower edges of the side portions.