US Patent 8956187 Electrical connector

An electrical connector includes an insulating body, a plurality of terminals integrated in the insulating body, a strengthening structure and a shell mounted around the insulating body. The insulating body has a base portion and a tongue portion extending forward from a front face of the base portion. A top face of the tongue portion is concaved downward to form a receiving groove passing through a front end of the tongue portion. The strengthening structure has a base plate and two holding arms which oppositely extend from two opposite side edges of a rear of the base plate. A front edge of the base plate is bent downward to form a protecting eave. The base plate is molded in the receiving groove of the tongue portion and the holding arms are embedded in the base portion. The front end of the tongue portion is wrapped by the protecting eave.