Patent ID: 6305992
Filing Date: 2001-10-23
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
An electrical contact comprising a one piece construction having a conductor connection region for connection to an electrical conductor and a contact-making region for making contact with a complementary contact, the contact-making region is formed as a box by two opposing side walls, a top wall and a bottom wall, where the top wall is wider than the bottom wall and the two opposing side walls are inclined with respect to each other and the top wall and the bottom wall, the contact making region having a contact spring arm extending at an inclination toward the bottom wall in a deflectable cantilevered form from the top wall, between the opposing side walls, and converging towards the bottom wall into a contacting region that would engage a complementary contact when inserted into the contact-making region and then diverging from the bottom wall to a free end, the contact spring arm being wider where the arm emerges from the top wall than at the contacting region and being tapered to fit between opposing side walls converging from the top wall toward the bottom wall, whereby higher contact forces would be generated upon the complementary contact than if the contact arm had a constant width equal to the contacting region.