Patent ID: 7364433
Filing Date: 2008-04-29
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connecting apparatus, comprising: a first device including a first housing which partially surrounds a plurality of first electrical contact elements, and a second device including a second housing which partially surrounds a plurality of second electrical contact elements, said first device and said second device being detachably mateable to one another to make electrical contact between said first electrical contact elements and corresponding ones of said second electrical contact elements when said first device and said second device are mated to one another, said first device further including a pressing body and a holding body, said holding body having a plurality of holding slots, each of said first electrical contact elements being mounted within a corresponding one of said holding slots, said pressing body being located between said first housing and said first electrical contact elements, at least one of said pressing body and said holding body being sufficiently elastic to permit said first electrical contact elements to be displaced relative to said first housing in at least (i) a first direction, away from the corresponding one of said second electrical contact elements, when said first device and said second device are mated to one another, and (ii) a second direction, toward the corresponding one of said second electrical contact elements, when said first device and said second device are detached from one another.