Patent ID: 7922547

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing defining a contact insertion face and a mating face; a plurality of passageways formed in the housing and upwardly extending through said contact insertion face; an engagement region formed in each of said passageways proximate the contact insertion face; a plurality of contacts disposed in the corresponding passageways respectively, each of said contacts defining a retention section retaining the contact in the corresponding passageway, and a mounting tail extending from the retention section, a connecting arm extending from the retention section, a contact section extending from the connecting arm opposite to said retention section, and a slanted engagement piece formed around a distal longitudinal end of the contact section in a longitudinal direction thereof; wherein said contact is initially inserted into the corresponding passageways, respectively, from the contact insertion face under condition that the contact section is under a relaxed manner so as to have the contact section extend beyond the mating face with a first distance, and successively said contact section is under a deflected/preloaded manner to have the contact section extend beyond the mating face with a second distance smaller than the first distance, via engagement between the slanted engagement piece and the engagement region during further insertion of the contact into the corresponding passageway; wherein no addition tool is required to deflect the contact section but only via insertion of the contact into the passageway; wherein each of said contacts includes a horizontal retention piece at the distal longitudinal end, and said horizontal retention piece defines an inner edge under condition that said contact section upwardly, inwardly and obliquely extends from a middle region of said inner edge while the slanted engagement piece downwardly, inwardly and obliquely extends from a lateral side region of said inner edge; wherein the horizontal retention piece abuts against the housing for preloading when the contact is fully assembled into the corresponding passageway.