Contact for CPU socket

A contact for use within a passageway of a housing of a connector, comprising:

• a vertical body section adapted to abut against the housing in the passageway;
• a set of barbs formed on two side edges of the body section for interferential engagement with the housing;
• a solder section horizontally extending from a lower edge of the body section for mounting to a printed circuit board on which the connector is seated;
• a head section coplanarly extending upward from an upper edge of the body section and another set of barbs formed on two side edges thereof;
• a pair of upper arms respectively extending little bit downwardly form the side edges above the barbs in a parallel relation adapted to abut against the housing, the upper arms extending beyond the solder section in a horizontal direction;
• a pair of forearms respectively extending obliquely, circuitously and upwardly from distal ends of the pair of upper arms in a converging manner toward each other;
• a pair of contact regions respectively formed at upper tips of the pair of forearms in a parallel relation with each other.

A contact for use with a pin type complementary contact, comprising:

• a planar body section;
• a pair of upper projections and a pair of lower projections located on upper and lower portions of said body section;
• a pair of arm sections extending from two side edge of the body section and between said pair of upper projections and said pair of lower projections in a vertical direction;
• said pair of arm sections includes a pair of opposite forwardly extending upper arms, a pair of opposite upwardly extending forearms which extend toward each other at upper ends, and a pair of contact regions upwardly extending away from each other;
• wherein
• a joint portion between the contact region and the corresponding forearm is essentially located around the upper portions of the body section from an elevational viewpoint.