Patent ID: 6971922

Claim:
An electric connector comprising a base connector and a socket connector, the base connector including a base housing having a mounting surface for a surface of a circuit board and two rows of base contacts arranged in a longitudinal direction of the base housing and held by the base housing, the socket connector including a socket housing connected to ends of wires and adapted to be fitted to the base housing in a predetermined fitting direction perpendicular to the mounting surface, and socket contacts arranged in two rows and held by the socket housing, each socket contact including a main part and a resilient tongue piece folded from the main part, each base contact having a semi-fixed piece portion and a resilient piece portion which respectively contact the main part and the resilient tongue piece of a corresponding socket contact, and each base contacts having a fork shape capable of holding the main part and the resilient tongue piece of the socket contact together, the base housing including a bottom wall, an opposed pair of side walls extending along the bottom wall and an intermediate wall extending from the bottom wall in parallel with the pair of side walls, the mounting surface being provided on the bottom surface, in the two rows of base contacts, the resilient piece portions thereof being disposed inside and the semi-fixed piece portions thereof being disposed outside respectively both in the lateral direction of the base housing perpendicular to the said longitudinal direction thereof, the resilient piece portion of each base contact being restrained from displacing by the intermediate wall of the base housing, and the semi-fixed piece portion of each base contact being received by a corresponding side wall of the base housing.