Electrical connector

An electrical connector assembly which comprises:

• a socket body mounted on a printed board, said socket body having a bottom and a pair of opposed side walls defining therebetween a cavity for detachably receiving a complementary plug with a plurality of contacts;
• said socket body comprising a stationary base and a movable base movable relative to said stationary base and formed with said bottom and a pair of said side walls defining therebetween said cavity,
• a plurality of connector contacts carried by said socket body, each of said connector contacts being bent to define an inner leg and an outer leg both extending from a bent, said inner leg extending along an inner surface of said side wall within said cavity for electrical connection with the contacts of said plug, said outer leg extending downwardly from said bent along an outer surface of said side wall to define a terminal lead at its lower end, said terminal lead projecting generally horizontally outwardly from the bottom of said socket body so as to be registered on a corresponding terminal site of a conductor pattern on said printed board and welded thereto;
• said connector contacts including a clamping leg extending from said bent between said inner and outer legs in a spaced relation thereto, said clamping leg extending in engagement with the outer surface of said side wall so as to clamp said side wall between said clamping leg and said inner leg, said outer leg extending downwardly from said bent in a spaced relation outwardly of said clamping leg so as to be given a resiliency which allows said clamping and inner legs to move together with said movable base relative to said stationary base in a direction of varying a spacing between the outer leg and said clamping leg, said outer leg having said terminal lead extending outwardly from a lower end of said stationary base.