Patent ID: 7938691

Claim:
A contact arrangement, comprising: a contact carrier which includes at least a series of contact chambers; and at least one contact element insertable into the series of contact chambers; wherein each of at least one of the at least one contact element includes: a fastening section for the accommodation of an electrical line; a box-shaped contact section, that includes: a body; a snap-on lance connected to the body and which acts together with a respective one of the contact chambers in a latched manner; and a top element connected to the snap-on lance and which: in relation to a direction of insertion of the respective contact element into the respective contact chamber, is situated on a side of the respective contact element facing away from the respective contact chamber; is, via engagement with a rib of the respective contact chamber, slideable transversely to the direction of insertion into the respective contact chamber so as to latch the respective contact element in the respective contact chamber via engagement with an undercut of the respective contact chamber; and forms, with the snap-on lance and the body, a smooth outer geometry of the respective contact element before the insertion of the respective contact element into the respective contact chamber.