Patent ID: 11929571
Assignee: AMPHENOL CORPORATION
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An electrical socket, comprising:
a socket body defining a longitudinal axis and having opposite first and second ends, a plurality of spaced contact beams extending between the first and second ends, and an inner receiving area for accepting a mating pin, the contact beams being configured for aligning into a hyperbolic geometry,
each of the contact beams comprising a middle section between first and second end sections, the first and second end sections being attached to the first and second ends, respectively, and
wherein the middle section of each contact beam has a pre-formed contour that defines a cross-section of each contact beam that defines a fully radiused, inner contact area without sharp edges such that each middle section has a generally C-shaped cross-section arranged within a plane oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and extends further into the inner receiving area than the first and second end sections when the contact beams are aligned into the hyperbolic geometry and such that the fully radiused, inner contact areas of the contact beams are positioned for contact with the mating pin when inserted into the inner receiving area of the socket body.