Patent ID: 7556542

Claim:
An electrical connector in the form of a socket contact, comprising: an inner contact part; and a spring element attached over the inner contact part, wherein the inner contact part includes: an attachment part for receiving a bare end of an electrical line, a center segment, and a contact segment having a contact part, the contact part having at least four contact lamellae pointing away from the center segment and arranged in two pairs, each of the two pairs having two contact lamellae being opposed to each other, the contact lamellae being freely movable, each of the contact lamellae having at least one contact point for producing an electrical plug connection to a knife blade; and wherein the contact lamellae are configured to spring off freely at a beginning of an insertion of a knife blade into the contact segment, and, after further insertion of the knife blade, only free ends of the contact lamellae configured to come to maintainly rest against the spring element in direct proximity to the contact point with the knife blade maintaining contact with the contact segment and contact point during the knife blade being inserted in the socket contact.