Patent ID: 8057269

Claim:
A contact element having a spring-elastic carrier strip, which extends in a longitudinal direction and which defines a plane, and a plurality of web elements, which are arranged one behind the other in the longitudinal direction of the carrier strip and are attached to the carrier strip resiliently compressable in a direction perpendicular to said plane of the carrier strip, wherein said web elements are adapted to establish electrical contact between two opposite surfaces and wherein the web elements are formed in an asymmetrical manner relative to a center plane which runs in the longitudinal direction of the carrier strip, wherein the web elements each have two clamping feet which are spaced apart from one another transverse to the longitudinal direction of the carrier strip and by means of which said web elements are attached to the carrier strip, and by means of which said web elements make electrical contact with one of the two opposite surfaces, and wherein the web elements each have a triangular contact fin which is connected to the clamping feet and of which the fin tip is arranged on one side of the center plane and makes electrical contact with the other of the two opposite surfaces.