Patent ID: 7248065

Claim:
An arcuate blade probe for probing a node of a circuit, comprising: a shaft made from an electrically conductive material, the shaft having a longitudinal axis and a first dimension transverse to the longitudinal axis, the shaft further having a plunger body including a dimension that is less than the first dimension of the shaft and a plunger tail connected with the plunger body; the shaft including a pair of faces positioned about a probe axis in facing opposition to each other, the faces converge towards each other along the probe axis at a face angle, the faces terminate at an edge; the edge including an arcuate profile having a radius of curvature, the radius of the profile greater than half the first dimension; a barrel including a cavity adapted to receive at least a portion of the plunger body and permit movement of the shaft along the probe axis, the plunger body structured and arranged to maintain the orientation of the arcuate profile upon contact with node.