Patent ID: 7195494

Claim:
A connector comprising: a header having a header body and at least one header post held on a side wall of said header body, wherein said header body has a header contact portion; and a socket having a socket body and at least one socket contact, wherein said socket body has a reinforcer therein and said at least one socket contact has an elastically deformable generally U-shaped socket contact portion disposed inside of a plug groove of said socket body, and wherein said plug groove is configured to engage said header such that said at least one socket contact, which is held on a side wall of said plug groove, contacts said at least one header post when said header engages said plug groove; wherein said header body has a concave portion provided on a first face side which is configured to communicate with said plug groove of said socket body when said socket engages said header, and wherein said at least one header post of said header body has a terminal end which protrudes outward in a direction generally perpendicular to said side wall of said headed body; and wherein a curved portion is provided on the concave portion of the header body, said curved portion comprising a first curved segment extending generally from a center of the U-shaped curved portion along an outside surface of said header body, and a second curved segment extending generally from said center of said U-shaped curved portion along an inside surface of said header body, wherein a first curvature radius of said first curved segment is larger than a second curvature radius of said second curved segment, wherein an arcuate segment of said curved portion surrounds an upper surface of said header body and contacts a bottom facing surface of said plug groove when said header engages said socket.