Patent ID: 7661998

Claim:
An electrical contact configured to engage an electrical component, the contact comprising: a compressive body configured to be press-fit into a plated through-hole of the electrical component, the body including a center portion and a pair of opposing arcuate arms that extend along a central axis, the arcuate arms projecting from the center portion to respective end portions and being configured to bend toward each other when inserted into the through-hole, the arcuate arms forming a transition region and a compliant region of the body where the transition region engages the through-hole before the compliant region, the end portions of the transition region having a first arcuate path and the end portions of the compliant region having a second arcuate path, wherein the second arcuate path has a greater radius of curvature than the first arcuate path before the body is inserted into the through-hole, the arcuate arms of the transition region bending toward each other when the arcuate arms of the transition region engage the through-hole and are compressed by the through-hole.