Patent ID: 9640884
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H01R

Claim:
1. An electrical connector, comprising: a housing having a front end, a back end, a top side, a bottom side and a cavity between the top side and the bottom side, wherein the cavity is to receive a circuit board therein and the housing comprises a plurality of parallel grooves, with a first portion of the plurality of grooves comprising contact grooves and a second portion of the plurality of grooves comprising fixing grooves; a plurality of contact elements disposed within the contact grooves and attached to the housing, each contact element having an upper contact arm disposed at the top side and a lower contact arm disposed at the bottom side; a pair of locking members disposed within the fixing grooves and attached to the housing, each locking member having a lock arm positioned along a direction from the back end to the front end of the housing, wherein the upper contact arm and the lower contact arm of each contact element and the lock arm of each locking member being resiliently deflectable away from the cavity to allow insertion of the circuit board into the cavity, wherein when the circuit board is inserted into the cavity, the upper contact arm and the lower contact arm are in electrical contact with the circuit board, and the lock arm springs back to engage the circuit board and lock the circuit board to the housing, and wherein the contact elements and locking members each comprises a tail extending from the housing to form an array of parallel tails extending from the back end of the housing.