Floatable electrical connector assembly

A floatable electrical connector assembly, comprising:

• an insulative fixed housing having a front receiving frame, the receiving frame defined by a pair of sidewalls and a bottom wall extending fully between the pair of sidewalls;
• an insulative movable housing discretely and movably attached to the fixed housing in an up-to-down direction and adapted to rest on said edge section of the receiving frame, the movable housing defining an interior mating face and a back wall;
• a plurality of contact terminals assembled to the movable housing, each of the contact terminals having an engaging section exposed on said mating face, a solder tail exposed out of said back wall, and an S-shaped flexible connecting section connected between said engaging section and said solder tail;
• and wherein
• the fixed housing has a mating bar extending from the bottom wall of the receiving frame, and the movable housing has a receiving slot for receiving the mating bar so as to allow the movable housing to be movable relative to the fixed housing in said up-to-down direction through cooperation of the mating bar and the receiving slot.

A floatable electrical connector assembly comprising:

• a fixed rear insulative housing defining a plurality of upward slots;
• a moveable front insulative housing defining a mating port;
• a plurality of contacts each having a contacting section retained to the front housing and exposed in the mating port, a mounting section retained to the rear housing with a soldering tail at a free end thereof, and at least one curve section positioned between the contacting section and the mounting section to compensate relative movement between the front housing and the rear housing in both vertical and transverse directions which are perpendicular to each other;
• and
• interengagement devices formed on both said front housing and said rear housing for allowing limited relative movement between the front housing and the rear housing in both said vertical direction and said transverse direction while essentially without a front-to-back direction perpendicular to both said vertical direction and said transverse direction.