Patent ID: 8641432

Claim:
An electrical connector system comprising: a plurality of electrical connectors, each including a connector housing and an electrical contact that is supported by the connector housing and configured to be mounted to a complementary electrical component, each connector housing including first and second forwardly projecting arms, the electrical contact disposed between the first and second forwardly projecting arms; a rail assembly including a rail housing that retains a plurality of powered electrical conductors that are elongate along a column direction and spaced along a row direction, the rail housing further defining first and second alignment guides, such that the first and second forwardly projecting arms is releasably inserted in respective ones of the first and second alignment guides when each of the plurality of electrical connectors is connected to the rail assembly along an insertion direction that is substantially perpendicular to both the column direction and the row direction, so as to electrically mate the electrical contacts to a complementary ones of the powered electrical conductors.