Patent ID: 7537463

Claim:
A thin foil metal contact assembly, comprising: a housing having a pair of opposed sides, each side including a plurality of apertures having an upper portion and a lower portion, the apertures on each side of the pair corresponding to apertures on the opposed side; a plurality of metal contacts positioned in apertures on opposed sides of the housing, each contact having an upper U-shaped portion positioned in a corresponding upper portion of an aperture and a lower leg positioned in the lower portion of one of the apertures; a metallic foil having a plurality of strips of a predetermined width and predetermined thickness of 0.005 inches and less extending across a pair of opposed bands, each of the strips of the metallic foil corresponding to the contacts in corresponding apertures; and a beam having a plurality of fingers mating with the plurality of contacts in the apertures, the fingers of the beam urging each strip of the plurality of strips of the metallic foil against the U-shaped portion of contacts, the lower leg of each contact extending from the housing opposite the U-shaped portion of the metal contact.