Patent ID: 7210956
Filing Date: 2007-05-01
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A contact for establishing electrical connection with an electrically conductive wire, comprising: a base and two elongate blades extending from the base and defining therebetween a channel within which a wire is to be received, a first blade of the two elongate blades being flat and a second blade of the two elongate blades being shaped and having a longitudinal axis, a flat contact surface of one blade being opposite a cutting edge, defined by two surfaces having respective planes, of the other blade and lying on opposite sides of the channel, the flat contact surface maintaining the wire substantially parallel to the flat contact surface through the channel and the cutting edge of the other blade pointing towards the flat contact surface; wherein the blades each have two major surfaces and two minor surfaces and the flat contact surface comprises a portion of a major surface of one blade proximate the other blade; wherein the flat contact surface lies in a first plane and the planes of the two surfaces defining the cutting edge lie in a second and a third plane respectively, the second and third planes being respectively between 30° and 60° to the first plane; and wherein the shaped blade prescribes an arc about an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the shaped blade.