Patent ID: 6319076
Filing Date: 2001-11-20
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A socket contact for receiving a pin contact, where the socket contact includes a piece of sheet metal forming a base with a flat base part that is elongated in front and rear longitudinal directions and that has laterally spaced opposite sides and that lies in a horizontal plane and has a base part front end, a spacing part formed by a piece of said sheet metal that extends upward from said base part front end and that has a top, said spacing part having a longitudinally-extending opening for passing said pin contact and having laterally-spaced opposite sides, and a top contact part extending primarily rearward from said top of said spacing part, said base forming a tongue with a contact location lying above said base part and below said top contact part, wherein:said spacing part has a pair of support regions that extend at least partially rearwardly and away from each other from locations at said laterally opposite sides of said spacing part, as seen in a downward sectional view taken through a middle of the height of said spacing part, to thereby strengthen said hole-forming spacing part against bending;said hole is circular and has a width and has a longitudinally-extending axis, and said spacer has a square center portion (30) with front and rear surfaces each lying in a vertical plane that is normal to said axis and that forms said hole, with said center portion having top and bottom edges extending along the entire width of said hole;said spacing part has a top region that extends at a rearward-upward incline from said top edge of said center portion, and has a bottom region that extends at a rearward-downward incline from said bottom edge of said center portion.