Patent ID: 6908345

Claim:
An electric connector comprising; a base connector including a base housing defining an inserting space accommodating a plurality of contacts, and fixed onto a mounting surface; and a socket connector including a socket housing accommodating a plurality of contacts, and an electric conductor extending from the socket housing in a direction generally parallel with the mounting surface, wherein when removed from the base connector, the socket connector is extracted from the inserting space of the base connector along a predetermined extracting direction generally orthogonal to the mounting surface, the base connector and socket connector individually including a cam surface, the cam surfaces capable of matching with each other, the cam surfaces serving to convert an extracting force on the electric conductor into a force directed in the predetermined extracting direction, the extracting force applied via the electric conductor to the socket connector in a direction generally parallel with the mounting surface when the socket connector is removed from the base connector such that, as the socket connector is extracted from the base connector, the socket connector moves in an inclined manner simultaneously away from the mounting surface and in the direction of the extracting force.