Patent ID: 7597577

Claim:
An electric socket, comprising: an insulating main member having apertures thereon and electrodes behind the apertures; at least a check securing device, which is provided in said insulating main member, having a suspended flexible section sloping toward a bottom end of said aperture and having a free end thereof received in said aperture; wherein when a plug has prongs inserted into said apertures, the prongs will bend said flexible section of said check securing device inwards, and an interference condition will occur between the prong and said flexible section when the plug is pulled out; and a release device provided on said insulating main member, wherein said release device is manipulative to press said flexible section of said check securing device for releasing the interference condition between the prong and said flexible section; wherein said release device has a manipulative portion and at least an arm on a back side of said manipulative portion, further wherein said manipulative portion is left out of said insulating main member, and said arm enters said insulating main member and has an inclined face to press said flexible section of said check securing device when said manipulative portion is pressed.