Patent ID: 6390828
Filing Date: 2002-05-21
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A board-to-board electrical connector assembly, comprising:a receptacle connector for mounting on a first circuit board and including a dielectric housing having a mating receptacle portion, and at least one conductive receptacle terminal mounted on the housing and having contact portions spaced apart generally at opposite sides of the receptacle portion; and a plug connector for mounting on a second circuit board and including a dielectric housing having a mating plug portion insertable into the receptacle portion of the receptacle connector in a mating direction with the plug portion being smaller than the receptacle portion in a direction transverse to said mating direction to provide a range of floating movement between the connectors and, thereby, between the circuit boards transversely of the mating direction, and at least one conductive plug terminal mounted on the housing and having oppositely facing resilient contact portions maintained in constant engagement with the spaced apart contact portions of the receptacle terminal throughout the entire range of said floating movement the resilient contact portions of the plug terminal being joined by a resilient curved portion to provide resiliency for the contact portions, and the resilient contact portions and the curved portion being at an end of a flexible cantilevered spring beam which extends generally in said mating direction.