A plurality of contacts are disposed within the corresponding passageways of the housing of the electrical connector, respectively. Each contact includes a main body extending in a vertical plane with two pairs of fixing sections on two opposite lateral sides to form an X-like shape, and a pair of resilient contacting arms extending from opposite upper and lower ends of the main body for mating with the CPU and PCB. A pair of extension arms extend from the waist section of the main body in a direction perpendicular to the vertical plane. The contacting arm includes a vertical section coplanar with the main body, an oblique section extending from an upper end of the vertical section with a bulged and narrowed contacting section at the free end. Each pair of fixing sections are located by two sides of the vertical section of the corresponding contacting arm.

An electrical connector includes: an insulating body provided with multiple accommodating holes running vertically therethrough, and multiple terminals correspondingly accommodated in the accommodating holes. Each accommodating hole has two protruding portions. Each terminal includes a main body portion. Two upper elastic arms are formed by bending upward and extending from left and right sides of the main body portion. Each upper elastic arm extends backward to form an upper abutting portion. A strip connecting portion extends upward from the main body portion to be connected to a strip. The strip connecting portion is located between the two upper elastic arms. Each of the left and right sides of the main body portion is provided with a position limiting portion protruding outward. The position limiting portion is located below the protruding portion. The position limiting portion and a corresponding upper elastic arm overlap along a vertical direction.

A connector providing both an electrical and mechanical connection and an electronic device utilizing the connector. The connector includes a rigid body, a head connected to the rigid body, and a flexible conductor coupled to the body. The rigid body and the flexible conductor define an electrically conductive path to the head. An electronic device includes a housing defining at least one sidewall, an interior component, and a connector passing through at least one sidewall and mechanically contacting the interior component. The connector defines an electrically conductive path from the interior component to an exterior of the housing.

Disclosed are an “8”-shaped elastic contact element and an electrical connector using the contact element. The “8”-shaped elastic contact element comprises two contact parts in conductive contact with two corresponding connectors respectively and a connecting part (12) located between the two contact parts, the elastic contact element is formed by ending a strip-shaped conductive material, a fracture is formed between the two ends of the conductive material, the contact parts and the connecting part are arranged in an “8” shape, and each contact part has at least one arc-shaped contact structure which is bulged towards the periphery. Each bent part of the “8” shape of the elastic contact element forms a bending deformation structure to disperse the deformation process, thereby prolonging the servide life of the elastic contact element, and the elastic contact element, which is only formed by simple arcs, does not have a special requirement for materials.

Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for a memory module that includes a dynamic random access memory (DRAM), a first plurality of contact pads positioned along a first side of the DRAM, a first plurality of L-shaped contacts, wherein each of the first plurality of L-shaped contacts is soldered to one of the first plurality of contact pads, a second plurality of contact pads positioned along a second side of the DRAM, and a second plurality of L-shaped contacts, wherein each of the second plurality of L-shaped contacts is soldered to one of the second plurality of contact pads.

A connector consisting of a body, a first slot, a second slot, a first terminal, and a second terminal is disclosed. The first slot is provided on the body to receive a first printed circuit board (PCB). The second slot is provided on the body to receive a second PCB. The first slot and the second slot are separate and distinct slots. When the first PCB and the second PCB are received in the first slot and the second slot, respectively, the first terminal electrically connects the first PCB and the second PCB, and the second terminal connects to only the second PCB. Providing the first slot on the connector allows adding expansion cards, control cards, and the like to enhance functionality of computing systems.

A contact pin, a spring contact including the same, and a socket device are proposed, in which the contact pin has a minimum length suitable for testing a semiconductor IC for a high speed signal and allows the spring contact to secure a maximum compression distance. The contact pin (100) includes: a plate-shaped body part (110) having a width and a thickness; a head part (120) configured to be integrated with an upper end of the body part (110); and a leg part (130) formed by extending from a lower end of the body part (110) to be integrated therewith, wherein the head part (120) is a plate-shaped strip (122) provided on the upper end of the body part (110).

An electrical connector includes multiple terminals formed by cutting from a metal plate and bending. The portion of the metal plate with the terminals being removed is defined as a base plate. Each terminal has a base portion and an elastic arm connected thereto. The base portion is at least partially horizontally provided to be coplanar to the base plate. A cutting slot is formed between the base plate and the base portion. A through slot is formed between the base plate and the elastic arm. An insulating body is provided with through holes running vertically therethrough. A portion of the cutting slot and the through slot are exposed in a corresponding through hole. The terminals include signal terminals and ground terminals. The base plate forms a connecting portion between the through slot and the cutting slot of each ground terminal to be connected to the ground terminal.

An electrical connector or electrical connector assembly that has a housing, a contact carrier, one or more spring members, and an interposer or contact system. The contact carrier is movable with respect to the housing between unmated and mated electrical positions.

An electrical contact includes a retention section of an outer part and an extension section of an inner part parallel to each other and linked to each other via a transverse bridge located in another vertical plane perpendicular to both the retention section and the extension section. An upper contacting arm extends, toward the extension section, from an upper end of the retention section with an upper mating apex and an upper abutment tip region, and a lower contacting arm extends, toward the extension, from a lower end of the retention section with a lower mating apex and a lower abutment tip region. An upper abutment tab upwardly and obliquely extends from an upper end of the extension section toward the retention section and adapted to be mated with the upper abutment tip region when the upper contacting arm is downwardly depressed by the CPU.