Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited

Yue-Chao Zhao

Kuo-Chun Hsu

Zhi-Jian Chen

Jun Lin

Lai-Ang Hu

An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulative housing forming a pair of receiving slots, two pairs of contacts are retained in the housing and located by two sides of the corresponding receiving slots, respectively. Each contact has a frame having four sides with a pair of first spring arms extending from two opposite sides toward each other and extending into the receiving slot with the corresponding contact points at different levels. A second spring arm extends from another side into the receiving slot. A deflection direction of the first spring arms is perpendicular to that of the second spring arm, and the first spring arms contact one side of the blade type contact of the plug connector and the second spring arm contacts another side of the blade type contact of the plug connector.

Electrical connector having complementary configurations of opposite contacts

An electrical connector () includes: an insulative housing having a base () and a pair of side walls (), each side wall having a resilient inner arm () and a stationary outer arm (); and plural contacts () retained to the insulative housing, wherein the resilient inner arm extends along a horizontal, front-to-back direction and has a front end operable in both a vertical, top-to-bottom direction and the horizontal, front-to-back direction to move toward the stationary outer arm.

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Kunshan, China

Yue-Chao Zhao