Patent ID: 8894420

Claim:
An electrical connection apparatus, comprising: a socket having a first front face, a permanently magnetic first magnet located on a first side of said first front face, a permanently magnetic second magnet located on a second side of said first front face, and a plurality of first electrical contact elements disposed between said first magnet and said second magnet; each of said first electrical contact elements having a respective first contact surface projecting from said first front face; a plug having a second front face, a plurality of second electrical contact elements, a cable outlet, a first magnetic connection element located on a first side of said second front face, a second magnetic connection element located on a second first side of said second front face, said second front face including a plurality of depressions disposed between said first magnetic connection element and said second magnetic connection element, said first magnetic connection element and said second magnetic connection element each being magnetically attractable but not permanently magnetic, each of said second electrical contact elements having a respective second contact surface disposed in a respective one of said depressions, said plug and said socket being detachably mateable to one another by magnetic attraction of said first magnet with said first magnetic connection element and magnetic attraction of said second magnet with said second magnetic connection element to make a plurality of electrical connections, each of said electrical connections being made within a respective one of said depressions through contact of each of said first contact surfaces with a respective one of said second contact surfaces.