Patent ID: 7021972

Claim:
An electrical connector assembly comprising: a dielectric socket body; a plurality of socket conductors having tips aligned in a row and exposed at one side of the socket body; a dielectric plug body formed with a row of straight, longitudinally extending, and generally parallel guides open at a front side of the plug body and defining a guide plane, the plug body being fittable with the socket body in a position with the guides longitudinally aligned with the socket conductors; and a plurality of plug conductors each having a rear portion generally fixed in the plug body and extending rearwardly out of a rear side of the plug body on a plane offset from but parallel to the guide plane, a straight front contact portion longitudinally shiftable on the guide plane in a respective one of the plug-body guides, having a tip exposed at the front side, and longitudinally displaceable in the respective guide between a front position with the tip projecting forward from the front side and a rear position, and a straight central part extending substantially perpendicular to the planes, a U-shaped bight having front and rear legs extending substantially perpendicular to the planes the rear leg being connected to the straight central part, a front elbow connecting the front bight leg to the front portion, a rear elbow connecting the straight central part to the rear portion, the front and rear portions, central part, bight, and elbows of each plug conductor being integrally formed with one another, the parts, bights, and elbows being elastically deformable to bias the plug-conductor tips into the front positions.