Patent ID: 7931507

Claim:
An electrical connector, comprising: an insulative housing extending along a transverse direction, the insulative housing being provided with a mating surface, a mounting surface opposite to the mating surface and a passageway extending through the mating and the mounting surfaces, the passageway extending along a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the transverse direction; a contact retaining member fixed in the passageway, the contact retaining member comprising a ring and at least one elastic spring extending forwardly from the ring, the ring being closed along its circumferential direction without any joint in order to have intrinsic strong structure; and a contact partly extending through the contact retaining member, the contact comprising a contact portion resided in the passageway and a fixing portion extending through the ring and the elastic spring along the longitudinal direction under a condition that the fixing portion abuts against a free end of the elastic spring to limit backwardly removal of the contact along the longitudinal direction; wherein the ring comprises a plurality of barbs formed on its outer surface thereof to abut against an inner surface of the passageway, in order to stably fix the ring in the passageway and to inhibit the ring from being backwardly drawn out from the passageway; the contact retaining member comprises a plurality of elastic springs separated by at least one slit which extends along the longitudinal direction; the elastic springs inwardly and slantways extend forwardly from the ring in order to form a contractive opening opposite to the ring; and the elastic springs are outwardly deformable in the passageway to let the fixing portion extend therethrough.