Patent ID: 7037113

Claim:
A dual compression electrical connector comprising; a connector housing including a plurality of cavities arranged in a row in a lengthwise direction of said connector housing, each cavity including a mouth opening at a surface of said housing and having a longitudinal direction extending from said mouth into said housing and bounded by at least an upper and lower wall and two side walls, a plurality of conductive elements, one located substantially with each said cavity, each conductive element having been formed by out of plane bending of a planar sheet material to define at least (a) an upper contact region, (b) a lower contact region, and (c) a beam region intermediate of said upper contact region and said lower contact region which allows said upper contact region and said a lower contact region to be resiliently deflectable towards each other, wherein each said conductive element is retained by said housing in a respective said cavity including by the inter-engagement of a locking section of said beam region with a complementary locking section of said housing within said cavity, said locking section of said beam encouraged to remain engaged with said locking section of the housing in said cavity by in plane bending rigidity of said conductive element to thereby restrict said conductive element from movement in said longitudinal direction out of said cavity.