Patent ID: 7887353

Claim:
An electrical disconnect, comprising: first and second connector housings defining a longitudinal axis along which the housings are movable to engage and disengage one another; at least one electrical contact mounted in each of the first and second housings, each contact having a generally planar portion with a mating surface and a support surface opposite the mating surface, the contact of one of the first and second housings being releasably electrically engageable with a counterpart contact in the other of the first and second housings, the contacts being engageable in an overlapping, side-by-side relationship in which they engage one another only on the mating surfaces; at least one support rail formed in the first housing for engagement with the support surface of the contact therein at least at or near a forward end of said contact; at least one support rail formed in the second housing for engagement with the support surface of the contact therein at least at or near a forward end of said contact; and wherein each contact further includes an upraised dimple formed along a portion of the mating surface and the dimple of each contact has a configuration that includes a natural relaxed condition when the housings are disengaged and that flexes as the housings are moved into engagement with each other and moves toward the natural relaxed condition as the housings are fully engaged.