US Patent 7138584 Electrical connector

An electrical connector is disclosed to include an electrically insulative housing, which houses a plurality of metal contact pins, each metal contact pin having a bottom bonding face protruding over the bottom side of the housing, a metal shield, which is coupled to the housing and has two bonding portions at two sides, and a bonding adjustment architecture provided between the metal shield and the housing for allowing vertical movement of the metal shield relative to the housing to adjust the elevation of the bonding portions so that the bonding portions and the bonding face of each metal contact pin can be positively bonded to a circuit board by SMT.