Patent ID: 7438593

Claim:
Component for a circuit board, the component comprising a housing including at least one peg for fitting into a hole in the circuit board; the peg having at least one detent lug which projects in the radial direction relative to the peg beyond the peg outer periphery; the detent lug being arranged on the peg such that the outer periphery of the peg is smaller in the region of the detent lug than the diameter of the hole in the circuit board; the outer periphery of the section of the peg protruding into the hole in the circuit board being such that between the outer periphery of the peg section and the inner wall of the hole in the circuit board, over at least a portion of the outer periphery, there is an intermediate space with capillarity for solder, such that solder situated on the surface of the circuit board during a soldering procedure penetrates by capillary action into the intermediate space and fills the intermediate space, the periphery of the peg in the longitudinal direction over its entire portion located in the hole in the circuit board including at least one cut-out.