Patent ID: 9716331
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: H01R

Claim:
1. A female contact having a socket for receiving a male contact, the socket having one or more contact springs configured to contact the male contact, the female contact comprising a terminal; and an intermediate part, wherein: the intermediate part comprises one end of the extended part is directly connected to the socket, an other end of the extended part is directly connected to an other end of the 90°-bent part, an other of the two ends of the U-shaped part is directly connected to the terminal, a direction in which the two ends of the U-shaped part are spaced from each other is parallel to an insertion direction in which the male contact is inserted into the socket, each of the U-shaped part and the extended part has a width smaller than a sum of each width of the one or more contact springs, the width measured along a direction orthogonal to the insertion direction, and the female contact has a shape bent out of a single flat sheet.