Patent ID: 7377788

Claim:
An electrical connecting apparatus comprising: a base plate with a first mounting portion group and a second mounting portion group respectively having a plurality of first mounting portions and a plurality of second mounting portions arranged to be alternately positioned in a first direction; a first contact group and a second contact group respectively having a plurality of first contacts and a plurality of second contacts individually mounted on said first mounting portions and said second mounting portions in a cantilever state; wherein each of said first and second contacts has a seat portion attached to said mounting portion and extending in a third direction intersecting both of said first direction and a second direction intersecting said first direction, an elastically deformable arm portion extending from said seat portion in a second direction, a tip portion extending from the front end portion of said arm portion toward the opposite side of said base plate, and a projected portion projecting from the front end of said tip portion toward the opposite end of said seat portion side; wherein attached positions of said first and second contacts on said mounting portions are displaced from each other in said second direction; and wherein the seat portions of said first and second contacts are respectively inclined toward the other side and the one side in said second direction relative to said base plate such that their tip portions are positioned on an imaginary straight line extending in parallel to said first direction.