Patent ID: 6867984

Claim:
A resilient contact element comprising a unitary conductive contact strip that has a strip axis and that is bent to configure said contact strip with an elongate mounting section to be disposed on a mounting plane, said mounting section having a front end portion and a rear end portion opposite to said front end portion along the strip axis, a curved section having a concave configuration relative to the mounting plane, and including a first curved segment that curves rearwardly from said rear end portion away from the mounting plane, and a second curved segment that curves rearwardly from said first curved segment toward the mounting plane, a resilient section that curves fowardly from said second curved segment away from the mounting plane, said resilient section having a first end connected to said second curved segment, and a second end opposite to said first end along the strip axis, and an elongate contact section extending forwardly from said second end of said resilient section and generally parallel to and spaced apart from said mounting section.