Patent ID: 8137131

Claim:
An electrical connector assembly comprising: a housing elongate between opposed first and second ends; a plurality of electrical contacts extending through the housing along a first direction, each of the electrical contacts having a first terminal end extending out from the housing and configured to engage electrical traces of an electrical component, and an opposed second terminal end extending out from the housing; a pair of support mounts that are detachably mountable onto the first and second ends of the housing, respectively, along mounting trajectories that are substantially parallel to the first direction, each of the support mounts including a front wall, a rear wall spaced from the front wall, and an upper wall joining upper ends of the front and rear walls, respectively, each of the support mounts configured to engage with respective engagement members carried by the housing, and each of the support mounts including at least one attachment member configured to attach to the electrical component when the first terminal ends of the electrical contacts are connected to the traces of the electrical component; and opposed front and rear contact walls, the front contact wall extending between the front walls of the support mounts, the rear contact wall extending between the rear walls of the support mounts.