Connector

A connector comprising a fixed contact, a fixed housing, a movable contact and a movable housing, wherein:

• the movable housing has an opening portion;
• the movable housing is attached to the fixed housing so as to be movable in an up-down direction;
• the fixed housing and the movable housing define an accommodation portion;
• the opening portion communicates with the accommodation portion and opens forward in a front-rear direction perpendicular to the up-down direction;
• the fixed contact has a gripped portion;
• the fixed contact is fixed to and held by the fixed housing;
• the gripped portion is positioned in the accommodation portion and extends forward in the front-rear direction;
• the movable contact has two upper-side contact points, two lower-side contact points, an upper-side gripping section, a lower-side gripping section, an upper-side spring part, a lower-side spring part and two joining sections;
• the upper-side spring part is resiliently deformable and supports the upper-side contact points and the upper-side gripping section;
• the lower-side spring part is resiliently deformable and supports the lower-side contact points and the lower-side gripping section;
• the upper-side contact points and the lower-side contact points correspond respectively, one upper-side contact point and one lower-side contact point corresponding thereto face each other in the up-down direction;
• the upper-side contact points are movable independently of each other due to resilient deformation of the upper-side spring part;
• the lower-side contact points are movable independently of each other due to resilient deformation of the lower-side spring part;
• the upper-side gripping section and the lower-side gripping section grip the gripped portion of the fixed contact in the up-down direction;
• each of the joining sections joins the upper-side spring part and the lower-side spring part to each other;
• a size of the joining sections in the front-rear direction is smaller than a size of each of the upper-side spring part and the lower-side spring part in the front-rear direction;
• in the front-rear direction, the joining sections are positioned at a first position;
• in the front-rear direction, the upper-side contact points and the lower-side contact points are positioned at a second position positioned frontward of the first position;
• in the front-rear direction, the upper-side gripping section and the lower-side gripping section are positioned at a third position positioned rearward of the first position;
• in a lateral direction perpendicular to both of the up-down direction and the front-rear direction, the upper-side spring part has an upper-side first width in the first position and an upper-side second width in the second position;
• a size of the upper-side second width is smaller than a size of the upper-side first width;
• in the lateral direction, the upper-side contact points are positioned between the joining sections;
• in the lateral direction, the lower-side spring part has a lower-side first width in the first position and a lower-side second width in the second position;
• a size of the lower-side second width is smaller than a size of the lower-side first width;
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• in the lateral direction, the lower-side contact points are positioned between the joining sections.