Patent ID: 8228143

Claim:
An assembly comprising: an electromagnetic relay including a body having a rectangular lateral surface and a bottom surface, and a plurality of terminals protruding outward from said lateral surface of said body, said plurality of terminals respectively having distal portions extending beyond said bottom surface of said body, said plurality of terminals each having a thickness and a width such that each respective width is greater than each respective thickness, the width of the terminals being measured in a direction perpendicular to the lateral surface and the thickness of the terminals being measured in a direction parallel to the lateral surface; and a circuit board provided with a relay-mount surface, said electromagnetic relay being mounted on said relay-mount surface in an orientation such that said bottom surface of said body is opposed to said relay-mount surface, and said distal portions of said plurality of terminals being fixed to said circuit board; wherein each of said plurality of terminals is formed from a flat plate element and has a shape angled in a width direction of said flat plate element, the width direction of said flat plate element being oriented perpendicular to said rectangular lateral surface of said body; and wherein said body has a height defined in a direction orthogonal to said relay-mount surface of said circuit board and corresponding to a length of a shortest edge of said lateral surface, said shortest edge being shorter than any of edges of said bottom surface.