Patent ID: 6881100

Claim:
A plug-in socket for receiving pins of an electrical device, comprising: a socket body defining pin accepting openings at a first top surface and having a second side surface disposed substantially at a right angle to said first top surface; contacts mounted in said pin accepting openings so as to contact a pin of the electrical device when inserted therein; a connecting structure on said second side surface of said socket body, said connecting structure being connectable to a further socket body in side-by-side relation, wherein said socket body has a third side surface disposed substantially at a right angle to said first top surface, wherein said connecting structure is a first connecting structure, and further comprising: a second connecting structure on said third side surface, said second connecting structure being connectable to a further socket body in side-by-side relation, wherein said second side surface and said third side surface are opposite one another, so that an elongated socket is formed by joining the further socket body to said second end third side surfaces in side-by-side relation, wherein said connecting structure at said second and third side surfaces are dovetail connectors, and wherein said socket body defines a plurality of said pin receiving openings, at least one of said pin receiving openings being in a dovetail part of said dovetail connectors.