Contact carrier

A contact carrier assembly establishing a plug-in connection with an accompanying socket while simultaneously contacting corresponding contact parts of the contact carrier and socket said assembly comprising:

• a slider situated in the contact carrier;
• the slider being arranged to be moved parallel to a direction of movement of the contact carrier, and loaded by at least one spring in the direction of movement of the contact, carrier;
• the slider being held by an element that releases the slider loaded by said at least one spring only if latch arms of the contact carrier projecting in a plug-in direction of the contact carrier have been latched in corresponding latching recesses of the socket and the contact carrier has reached its final plug-in position relative to the socket.