Patent ID: 8454395

Claim:
An electrical connector for mating with a mating connector comprising: a housing defining a receiving cavity; a rear insulator received in the receiving cavity and defining an accommodating slot; a central pin secured in the accommodating slot of the rear insulator; a front insulator confined in the receiving cavity; and a one-piece contact member secured in the front insulator and connected with the central pin, said one-piece contact member being punched from a metal sheet and including a first through fourth side walls surrounding an inserting slot, a pair of resilient beams respectively bent from the second and the fourth side walls toward the inserting slot for clasping the mating connector, said first side wall being perpendicular to the second and the fourth side walls and comprising a first edge portion having a first protrusion and a first cutout in front of the first protrusion, a second edge portion having a second protrusion engaged with the first cutout and a second cutout behind the second protrusion and engaged with the first protrusion, and a seam between the first and second edge portions and extending along a front-to-back direction, said first protrusion projecting toward said seam, said second protrusion projecting away from said seam, said first and second protrusions aligned with each other along said front-to-back direction.