Patent ID: 7887350

Claim:
A floating connector including a plurality of contacts each having a contact portion adapted to contact a mating object, a first fixed portion to be fixed to an insulator, a second fixed portion to be fixed to a housing, an elastic portion provided between said first fixed portion and said second fixed portion and having at least one snaked portion, and a first connection portion to be connected to a substrate; the insulator arranging and fixing said contacts, having flanges, and being supported only by said contacts so as to be in a floating state in said housing; and the housing covering said insulator and arranging and fixing said contacts, wherein the floating connector comprises fixtures one for each one of the flanges of the insulator to restrict its excessive movement in a vertical direction, wherein the fixtures are to be mounted on the substrate, having at a bottom end a connection portion to be fixed to said substrate, said fixture comprising at a top end a first anchoring bent piece adapted to engage a flange of the insulator to prevent said insulator from floating upwardly to an excessive extent, and said fixture further comprises a second anchoring bent piece between said connection portion and said first anchoring bent piece so that said first anchoring bent piece is located above said flange of the insulator for limiting the floating of said insulator in the direction of its height and said second anchoring bent piece is located below the flange to prevent said insulator from being sunk below the lowest position.