Patent ID: 7112105

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing defining a plurality of cavities extending therethrough in a front-to-back direction; plural pairs of vertical channels extending forwardly from a rear face of the housing and in communication with the corresponding cavities, respectively; plural pairs of horizontal slits extending forwardly from the rear face of the housing and in communication with the corresponding cavities, respectively; a plurality of contacts forwardly inserted into the corresponding cavities from the rear face, respectively, each of said contacts including: a horizontal planar intermediate portion having two opposite side edges received in the corresponding pair of slits, respectively; a pair of vertical arms extending vertically from two sides of the intermediate portion with a pair of tips received in the corresponding channels, respectively; a central contact beam obliquely extending from the intermediate portion between said pair of contact beams; and a pair of resilient side arms horizontally extending from the pair of vertically arms, respectively, toward each other.