Patent ID: 7101228

Claim:
An electrical connector of the type for receiving a memory module, the connector comprising: an electrical connector housing having a board mounting face and a module receiving face, the module receiving face including a slot for receiving a memory module, and contact receiving cavities flanking said slot, at least some of said contact receiving cavities comprising a transverse cavity having a downwardly directed surface; electrical terminals for receipt in said cavities, each said terminal including a memory module contact facing, and partially overlapping, said slot, and said terminals including compliant printed circuit board connecting portions, some of said compliant portions being planar with its corresponding memory module contact, and some of said compliant printed circuit board connecting portions being staggered laterally away from said slot to stagger adjacent compliant printed circuit board connecting portions, the staggered compliant printed circuit board connecting portions being connected to said memory module contacts by way of a tail portion, and said electrical terminals including at least one rigidifying finger adjacent to said compliant pin portion, and positioned in respective transverse cavities, with a portion of said rigidifying finger positioned adjacent to said downwardly directed surface and with the entire length of said rigidifying finger positioned within said transverse cavities, for rigidifying said compliant printed circuit board connecting portions during insertion of said connector into a printed circuit board.