Patent ID: 8162683

Claim:
A female connector, comprising: an electrically conductive connector block having an open end for receiving a male contact of a male connector, the connector block comprising a conductive cylindrical axially extending outer shell contact having an open front and rear ends, wherein an inner surface of the open front end within the cylindrical outer shell contact includes a C-shaped laterally extending slot including inner upper and lower laterally extending grooves beginning respectively at upper and lower ends of a vertically extending C-shaped side cutout opening in a side of the outer shell contact and extending laterally to two vertically extending elongated and spaced slots in an opposite side of the outer shell contact and further comprising a laterally elongated C-shaped retainer extending through the vertically extending C-shaped side cutout opening with upper and lower arms of the retainer extending respectively along the upper and lower laterally extending grooves and terminating in the upper and lower vertically elongated slots in the opposite side of the outer shell contact to releasably secure the male connector within the female connector; a conductive vertically orientable floating spring contact loosely mounted within the connector block for vertical orientation and outward expansion in response to insertion of the male connector contact through the open end to provide a conductive path between the male connector and the connector block; and a second electrically conducive connector block comprising a conductive axially extending center end contact within the open rear end of and insulated from the outer shell contact.