Patent ID: 7661997
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. The combination of a circuit board that has a plated hole, and a plurality of electrical contacts each formed of sheet metal, each contact having an inboard region bent into a tubular shape and with at least a portion of said inboard region lying in one of said plated holes and each contact having a top region that projects above an upper face of the circuit board, wherein: said inboard region of each contact has a vertical axis and has laterally opposite inboard side walls on laterally opposite sides of said axis, said side walls having rear edges and having front edges, and said inboard region has a rear wall that merges with said side wall rear edges; a first of said inboard side walls has an extension that extends from the front edge of said first side wall and that is bent to extend primarily parallel to said rear wall and that has a free edge that abuts the front edge of the second inboard side wall.