Patent ID: 7578708

Claim:
A socket for an electrical plug-and-socket connection, comprising: (a) a housing having a plug-in opening for mating with a plug; (b) a contact support insert positioned in the housing; and (d) flat contacts with an elastically bent contact surface extending into the plug-in opening, which are fixed in the contact support insert only by the material of the contact support insert, wherein a first part of the housing and the contact support insert are comprised of the same material as a single component, and a second part of the housing is fixed to the first part of the housing, and further wherein the socket is produced in two consecutive injection molding steps so that the first part of the housing and the contact support insert with fixed contacts are produced during a first injection molding step, and the second part of the housing is molded onto the first part of the housing in a second injection molding step.