Patent ID: 7980869

Claim:
A safety socket adapted for receiving a plug having at least two terminals, comprising: a socket housing, at least two electrodes being mounted in the socket housing; a socket cover coupled with the socket housing and defining at least two inserting apertures corresponding to the electrodes, each of the inserting apertures being aligned with the corresponding electrode along the insertion direction of the terminals of the plug; and an insulating baffle disposed between the socket housing and the socket cover and rotatably located above the electrodes by a torsional spring for operably blocking between the inserting apertures and the electrodes, the insulating baffle having at least two gaps opened at intervals along a circle of which a center is at the rotation axis of the insulating baffle, and at least two driven slopes arranged alternately with the gaps along the circle, each driven slope being gradually inclined upward from one end thereof adjacent to the corresponding gap to the other end thereof away from the corresponding gap; wherein the driven slopes movably block between the inserting apertures and the corresponding electrodes, the terminals of the plug pass through the corresponding inserting apertures and act on the driven slopes to drive the insulating baffle to rotate so as to make the gaps exposed in alignment with the corresponding electrodes, then the terminals further pass through the gaps to be inserted in the corresponding electrodes.