Patent ID: 8764496

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: a first connector part comprising a first housing, and a first contact held by the first housing; and a second connector part comprising a second housing, and a second contact held by the second housing, wherein the first connector part and the second connector part are mated to make the first contact and the second contact each other, the first contact comprises a holding part held by the first housing and a spring piece supported by the holding part to be capable of being elastically deformed, a contact part that contacts with the second contact is formed in the spring piece, the second contact comprises a contact surface that contacts with the contact part, the spring piece is elastically deformed before the contact part is opposed to the contact surface, so that a gap is formed between the contact part and the contact surface when the contact part is opposed to the contact surface, the contact part is displaced toward the contact surface and contacts with the contact surface when an elastic deformation force that elastically deforms the spring piece is released, and just before the contact part contacts with the contact surface, the contact part is displaced obliquely with respect to the contact surface when seen from a mate direction as a direction of relative displacement of the second connector part seen from the first connector part when the first connector part and the second connector part are mated.