Patent ID: 8684766

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulator housing, into which a thin plate-shaped conductive object to be connected to said connector is removably insertable, including a plurality of contact insertion grooves and a plurality of partition walls that are positioned between said contact insertion grooves to separate said contact insertion grooves from one another, said contact insertion grooves being elongated in an insertion/removal direction of said thin plate-shaped conductive object and arranged in a direction orthogonal to said insertion/removal direction; and a plurality of contacts which are inserted into said contact insertion grooves, respectively, each of said contacts including a first contact portion and a second contact portion that are spaced from each other in a direction of thickness of said thin plate-shaped conductive object, and a connecting portion which connects said first contact portion and said second contact portion to each other, wherein at least one of said first contact portion and said second contact portion comes in contact with said thin plate-shaped conductive object when said thin plate-shaped conductive object is inserted into said insulator, wherein a hollow portion is formed in each of said plurality of partition walls of said insulator housing in such a manner as to overlap each contact of said plurality of contacts as viewed from a lateral side of said insulator in said direction orthogonal to said insertion/removal direction, and in such a manner that each partition wall of said plurality of partition walls separates each of said hollow portions from said contact insertion grooves in said direction orthogonal to said insertion/removal direction, each of said hollow portions being configured to remain open along the entire length thereof during operation of said connector.