Patent ID: 7488217
Filing Date: 2009-02-10
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electric power connector comprising: a plug module, said plug module comprising an electrically insulative housing and a plurality of male metal terminals mounted in the electrically insulative housing of said plug module; and a socket module, said socket module comprising an electrically insulative housing abutted against the electrically insulative housing of said plug module, and a plurality of female metal terminals mounted in the electrically insulative housing of said socket module and respectively disposed in contact with said male metal terminals; wherein: said male metal terminals each comprise a base and two contact prongs bilaterally extending from one side of the base of the respective male metal terminal at different elevations, the contact prongs of said male metal terminals each having an inner bearing surface portion; said female metal terminals each comprise a base, an extension extending from one side of the base of the respective female metal terminal, and two zigzagged contact prongs forwardly extending from said extension at different elevations and different angles, the contact prongs of said female metal terminals each having a smoothly curved contact surface portion, the smoothly curved contact surface portions of the contact prongs of said female metal terminals being respectively disposed in contact with the inner bearing surface portions of the contact prongs of said male meal terminals.