Patent ID: 8118622
Filing Date: 2012-02-21
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector, comprising: a longitudinal insulative housing having a plurality of receiving passageways, each receiving passageway having a mating slot and a pair of retaining slots located at two opposite sides of the mating slot and communicated with the mating slot; a plurality of contacts secured in the receiving passageways of the housing, each contact defining a soldering tail and a pair of arm portions with roots thereof secured in the retaining slots, the pair of arm portions shift in and between the mating slot and the retaining slot in a first direction, a pair of contact portions integrally project oppositely from inner sides of the arm portions; wherein the arm portions define shrink sections by reducing thicknesses of the arm portions at a position thereof opposite to the contact portions so that the shrink sections space away from the retaining slots in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; wherein the shrinking section is defined in a form of recess which extends through a free end of the arm portions and an outer lateral side opposite to the inner side of the contact portion.