ELECTRIC CONNECTOR

The invention provides an electric connector that is made compact. A connector 10 comprises a housing 1 and a shell main body 21. The connector 10 also comprises a bottom plate 22 and a plurality of contacts 3. The housing 1 includes a housing chamber 11 in an inner part. The shell main body 21 includes an upper surface plate 21t and a pair of side surface plates 21s and 21s. The shell main body 21 opens in a rectangle shape for freely inserting thereinto a mating electric connector. The bottom plate 22 is arranged so as to be opposite to the upper surface plate 21t. The contact 3 is arranged to a header 11h provided on the housing 1. The shell main body 21 includes a plurality of leg pieces 213 and 213 projected from a pair of side surface plates 21s and 21s The leg pieces 213 and 213 are arranged over a back surface side from the opening side of the shell main body 21. The plurality of leg pieces 213 and 213 are projected from the pair of side surface plates 21s and 21s through a Z flexure part 21z. 本发明提供种电