Patent ID: 7081025

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing defining a plurality of passageways therein, each of said passageway defining lengthwise and lateral directions perpendicular to each other, and essentially formed by a circumferential wall structure, and a protrusion being defined on said circumferential wall structure; a plurality of conductive contacts disposed in the corresponding passageways respectively, each of said contacts defining thereof a contact section at a tip end, and a resilient deflectable medial section for allowing said contact section to move backwardly in both said lengthwise direction and said lateral direction of the corresponding passageways; wherein said contact farther defines a recess snugly compliantly engageably receiving the protrusion therein when said contact in a relaxed manner with the contact section extending out of the housing in a relatively stable manner along both lateral and lengthwise directions, while said protrusion leaves the recess and deflects the contact in the lateral direction when the contact is deflected by deflected by a mating connector in said lengthwise direction.