Patent ID: 9705227
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: H01R

Claim:
1. A contact element, comprising: a body; a mating plug end located at one end of the body; a conductor end located at an opposite end of the body with respect to the mating plug end and having a conductor-side cross-width being less than a plug-side cross-width of the mating plug end; a fold-over layer disposed along the mating plug end forming a multilayer region having a pair of contact layers; a first spacer formed as a bent edge of one of the pair of contact layers and extending between the pair of contact layers, the first spacer abutting an adjacent contact layer of the pair of contact layers; wherein the first spacer is formed from a structured region of the contact; outer contact layers of the multilayer region are formed by the pair of contact layers; wherein one of the pair of contact layers includes a fastener received in a complementary recess disposed along another of the pair of contact layers; wherein the fastener is frictionally fit together with the complementary recess; wherein the fastener is tapered in a direction of the complementary recess; a projecting locking arm extending from the mating plug end toward the conductor end; the projecting locking arm includes a base and a free locking arm end opposite the base; and a support extending from the mating plug end and toward the conductor end and abutting a surface of the adjacent contact layer of the pair of contact layers.