Patent ID: 8100698

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: a plurality of contacts, each contact comprising a body portion, a spring portion and a soldering tail; an insulative housing comprising a smooth top face, a plurality of generally parallel ridges extending from an opposite face to the top face to provide with interposed grooves between every adjacent ridges, the insulating housing defining a mounting face opposite to the smooth top face for confronting with a printed circuit board; the contacts being individually engaged in corresponding grooves; wherein the body portions are received in the grooves and the spring portions extend forwards beyond a front face of the housing, the soldering tails extend downwards beyond the mounting face, wherein the body portion defines an addition tail near to the spring portion, the additional tail is parallel to the soldering tail, wherein the body portions are in a shape of an downward arc with a lower point lower the mounting face, wherein the body portion defines a pair of retaining ribs at lateral sides thereof near to the soldering tail to be inserted slots defined in the groove, wherein the insulating housing is detachedly engaged with the contacts in a condition that the insulating housing is removed after the contacts are disposed on the printed circuit board, the top surface is used in transporting the contacts by vacuum suction.