Patent ID: 8734193

Claim:
A connector comprising: a contact member; and a housing, the contact member including: a spring part having a length variable in an axial direction, and a contact part extending from an axial end of the spring part and adapted to be pushed against and electrically connected with a counterpart flat contact, wherein the spring part including a slanted meandering portion provided with a plurality of major arms spaced from each other in the axial direction, the major arms being slanted with respect to the axial direction and arranged parallel to each other when the slanted meandering portion is not elastically deformed, the slanted meandering portion adapted to be elastically deformed so as to narrow a space between the major arms by a contact pressure applied from the counterpart flat contact to the contact part, and wherein the contact part adapted to be displaced so as to slide on the counterpart flat contact by an elastic deformation of the slanted meandering portion.