Patent ID: 7056158
Filing Date: 2006-06-06
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A socket contact for connection thereof with a wire end and for isolated accommodation thereof in a compartment that is formed in an insulating housing, the contact having a body composed of lateral walls and a bottom such that these walls bent up and continuing from the bottom do render the contact body generally U-shaped in cross section, and a lance formed by punching the bottom so as to protrude outwards, wherein the bottom of the contact body has a broadened inner end portion generally of the same width as a transverse width of said contact body, and the lance being generally of the same width as a transverse width of the bottom, side edges of the lance originating from corresponding sides of cutouts that have been formed by said punching the bottom, at a middle region thereof, with the lateral walls being bent up subsequent to said punching, and the lance having two bent portions, wherein one of these bent portions is disposed close to a basal end of said lance, with the other bent portion located at a middle region intermediate between the basal end and a free end of said lance, thereby affording improved rigidity and resiliency to the lance, and wherein the contact further comprises resilient leaves extending from the lateral walls, and overlaying and being spaced from the broadened inner end portion of the bottom of the contact body.