Patent ID: 7553167

Claim:
A cable connector comprising: a housing defining a receiving space recessed from a front part of a bottom surface thereof and a plurality of holes extending downwardly from a top surface thereof and communicating with the receiving space, the housing further having a plurality of channels downwardly extending from a rear part of a top surface thereof and being separated from the receiving space; and a plurality of contacts assembled to the housing, each contact having a contacting arm received in the hole and exposed in the receiving space and an engaging arm disposed on a top surface of the first housing the contact further having a retaining arm inserting into and engaging with the channel to retain the contact in the housing; wherein the housing is formed with a plurality of parallel ribs on the top surface thereof and a plurality of slots respectively defined by every two adjacent ribs, the engaging arms of the contacts are located in the slots, the holes of the housing extend downwardly from each slots, the contacting arm of each contact extends downwardly from the engaging portion into the holes to be exposed in the receiving space.