Electrical connector with improved contacts

An electrical connector to be mounted on a printed circuit board, comprising:

• an insulative housing having a receiving cavity for receiving a mating plug and a plurality of passageways;
• and
• a plurality of contacts retained in the passageways respectively, including:
• a first contact which is stationary and having a first contacting portion, a first soldering portion to be fixed on a printed circuit board and a first base portion retained in the insulative housing;
• a second contact which is movable to mate with the first contact to form a switch and having a second base portion and a second soldering portion extending downwardly from the second base portion, a second contacting portion defining a contacting area to contact with the first contacting portion;
• wherein the first contact and the second contact does not overlap each other except for the contacting area along a direction of the movement of the second contacting portion.

An electrical connector assembly comprising:

• an insulative housing defining a plug receiving cavity in an axial direction, and defining opposite first and second lateral sides;
• a first contacts located on the first lateral side and defining a resilient deflectable contact arm with a first contact section thereon;
• a second contact located on the second lateral side and defining a second contact arm with thereon a second contact section which is actuated by the first contact section;
• wherein
• the first contact arm extends essentially in the axial direction while the second contact arm extends essentially in a lateral direction perpendicular to said axial direction, and the first contact and the second contact are radially overlapped only at the first contact section and the second contact section which are closer to each other than any other portions of said first contact and said second contact;
• wherein
• the first contact is equipped with an insulator which is adapted to be urged by a plug which is inserted into the plug receiving cavity.