Patent ID: 6722928
Filing Date: 2004-04-20
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A press-fit pin having an elastically deformable area to be press-fitted in a plated through hole in a printed circuit board, the elastically deformable area comprising:two generally parallel, opposite beams; a deformable bridge extending perpendicular to said beams, said deformable bridge having, in cross-section, a flat upper surface and a flat lower surface, said flat upper surface and said flat lower surface having opposite ends; said upper surface of said deformable bridge being joined to said beams by two oblique sections extending outward and upward from said opposite ends of said upper surface of said deformable bridge; and said lower surface of said deformable region having reentrant sections formed at said opposite ends of said lower surface of said deformable region, and opposite sidewalls extending from said reentrant sections generally outward and downward to be contiguous with said opposite beams.