Patent ID: 8708731

Claim:
Electrical socket with a housing that is adapted to be mated with an electrical plug in a mating direction, the housing comprising a hollow and essentially cylindrical receiving section for receiving the plug, with at least one actuating zone that is adapted to be manually elastically deformed in an actuating direction running perpendicular to the mating direction and towards the interior of the housing, and with a displacement zone, which comprises a latching element that faces in the mating direction, the displacement zone being adapted to move from a initial position to a deflected position in a radial direction running perpendicular to the mating direction and away from the interior of the housing when the at least one actuating zone is deformed in the actuating direction, wherein the receiving section comprises at least one supporting element, which is arranged on an inner surface of the receiving section and which projects into the interior of the receiving section, the supporting element comprising at least one surface section facing to the interior of the receiving section.