Contact for CPU socket connector

A contact for a CPU socket connector for electrically connecting a pin of a CPU socket connector with a trace of a printed circuit board, comprising:

• a base having a body section for being secured in the CPU socket connector, and a soldering section for being soldered onto the printed circuit board;
• and
• a pair of arm sections extending from opposite lateral sides of the body section;
• wherein
• each arm section includes an upper arm extending from the body section, a forearm connected with the upper arm, and a pair of palms extending away from the forearm toward the body section, the pair of palms gradually deviating from each other as they extend toward the body section for facilitating guiding of the pin during insertion of the pin into the contact.

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 pair of upper arms respectively extending little bit downwardly from said two side edges above said barbs in a parallel relation adapted to abut against the housing, said upper arms extending beyond said solder section in a horizontal direction;
• a pair of forearms respectively extending upwardly from distal ends of said pair of upper arms in a converging manner toward each other;
• a pair of vertical contact regions respectively formed at upper tips of the pair of forearms in a parallel relation with each other;
• and
• a pair of palms generally horizontally extending from the pair of contact regions and commonly toward the body section while curvedly away from each other.