Patent ID: 7261601

Claim:
A connector comprising: a housing defining a space in a center thereof and a transverse direction in width and having two sidewalls beside the space formed with a plurality of slots and retaining channels; a plurality of contacts received in the housing, each contact comprising a retaining portion, an elastic portion with a contacting portion and a mounting portion, the retaining portion and the elastic portion respectively and correspondingly inserted into the retaining channel and the slot, the contacting portion exposed in the space, wherein the retaining portion and the elastic portion of each contact extend transversely in different transverse plane, and the slots and the retaining channels of the housing are alternately arranged, wherein the contact has the retaining portion, a linking portion horizontally bent from an end of the retaining portion, the mounting portion extending downwardly from an end of the linking portion and the elastic portion being in a U-shaped and linked with a part of the retaining portion near the linking portion.