Patent ID: 7037141

Claim:
A communication socket comprising a body having a channel transversely defined in the body and a plug identifying member securely received in the channel and provided with a shaft, two sliding bars respectively and perpendicularly formed at two opposed ends of the shaft, each sliding bar having a free end with a triangular longitudinal section, two pivot pins respectively provided on the sliding bars and adjacent to the shaft and rotatably received in the channel, two blocks each fanned on a side of a corresponding one of the sliding bars and provided with a length shorter than a length of the corresponding one of the sliding bars, wherein the improvements comprise: two elastic strips are adapted to be respectively formed under the two sliding bars and extend from the shaft to provide a recoil force to the two sliding bars such that after the two sliding bars are pressed downward inside the body, the recoil force from the two elastic strips returns the two sliding bars to their original position, two grooves are adapted to be defined respectively in two inner walls of the body to accommodate two lugs respectively formed on exterior sides of the sliding bars, and two notches are adapted to be defined in the body to receive therein two fasteners respectively formed at two opposed ends of the shaft.