Patent ID: 7413469

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: a housing having a mating interface configured to mate with a circuit board, the mating interface having a perimeter defined by a footprint of said housing, and said housing having a contact interface oriented substantially parallel to the mating interface, the contact interface being configured to receive an end of a flexible printed circuit (FPC) having at least one row of FPC contacts; contacts received in the housing and extending between the mating interface and the contact interface, each of said contacts being configured to engage at least one of the FPC contacts at the contact interface and each of said contacts being exposed at the mating interface to engage mating contacts on the circuit board; and an insert member received within said housing, said insert member comprising a base and multiple fingers interconnected with one another by said base, said fingers being movable independently with respect to one another, said insert member configured to be loaded into said housing to a mated position at which each of said fingers separately engage the FPC.