Patent ID: 6544064
Filing Date: 2003-04-08
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A socket connector comprising:a base housing having top and bottom faces, the housing defining cavities that are open to the top face adapted to receive a pin leg of an electronic package that is movable in a moving direction toward an engaged position, each cavity having a substantially closed bottom with a slit defined therein and exposed to the bottom face of the housing, the slit being oriented oblique with respect to the moving direction at a predetermined oblique angle; a conductive contact element received in each cavity, the contact element comprising a retention section received and retained in the slit of the cavity whereby the contact element is substantially oblique with respect to the moving direction, an intermediate section extending from the retention section toward the top opening of the cavity, a cantilever beam extending from the intermediate section and substantially spaced from the retention section, the cantilever beam being oblique with respect to the contact element and somewhat compliant with the moving direction of the pin leg and adapted to biasingly engage the pin leg when the pin leg is moved to the engaged position.