Electrical connector and method making the same

A method of making an electrical connector comprising steps of:

• providing an insulative housing with a plurality of passageways extending therethrough in a vertical direction;
• forming a contact assembly with one row of contacts thereof and an upper carrier and a lower carrier wherein the contact includes a body portion with a contacting section extending above a top surface of the housing and a tail section around a bottom surface of the housing, the upper carrier is adapted to be connected to an upper linking part formed on an upper portion of the body portion, and the lower carrier is adapted to be connected to a lower linking part formed on a lower portion of the body portion;
• and
• removing a transversely extending crossbar of the lower carrier and holding the upper carrier to downwardly insert the contacts into the corresponding passageways from the top surface of the housing, respectively.

An electrical connector assembly comprising:

• an insulative housing having two opposite top surfaces and bottom surfaces, a plurality of passageways in matrix formed in the housing and extending through both the top surface and the bottom surface;
• a plurality of contacts retained in the corresponding passageways, respectively, each of said contacts including:
• a body portion,
• a spring section extending from an upper portion of the body portion;
• a contacting section extending from the spring section and above the top surface for contacting an electronic package;
• a tail section extending from a lower portion of the body portion for mounting to a printed circuit board;
• an upper linking part formed on an upper portion of the body portion for linking to an upper carrier which is requisitely removed from the contacts after the contacts have been assembled into the corresponding passageways;
• and
• a lower linking part formed on a lower portion of the body portion for linking to a lower carrier which is requisitely removed from the contacts after the contacts have been fully assembled into the corresponding passageways;
• wherein
• due to the contacting sections of the contacts dimensionally larger than the corresponding passageways, the contacts associated are downwardly inserted into the corresponding passageways from the top surface of the housing by the upper carrier which is exposed above the top surface, after a transversely extending crossbar of the lower carrier has been removed.