Patent ID: 7165975

Claim:
An electrical connecting apparatus comprising: a plate-like elastic body with a plurality of first through holes penetrating the elastic body in its thickness direction; a plurality of elastically deformable seats having second through holes individually corresponding to said first through holes and arranged in the elastic body, the seats being laid on one face thereof in its thickness direction, each second through hole penetrating said seat in its thickness direction and being communicated to the corresponding first through holes; a plurality of first pins, each provided with a first portion received in said first and second through holes, a second portion projected from said second through hole, and a flange portion which is capable of contacting with said seat; and a plurality of second pins received in said first through holes so as to adjoin in an axial direction of said first through holes relative to said first pins; wherein said first and second pins are further provided with plane regions having an angle to the axial direction of said first through holes, said plane regions being in contact with each other.