Patent ID: 7198508

Claim:
An electrical connector for current conduction comprising first and second spaced-apart contact terminals for making electrical and mechanical connection with external electrical devices, and a plurality of spaced apart elongated conductive members interconnecting said first and second contact terminals; wherein said plurality of elongated conductive members and said first and second contact terminals are integrally formed from a single piece of a rigid current conductor, and said plurality of elongated conductive members are spaced apart and function to sink and radiate heat from at least one of said external electrical devices; wherein said plurality of elongated conductive members respectively form a plurality of arcuate bridges extending above the space between said contact terminals, the curvature of an adjacent pair of elongated conductive members being different so that an immediately adjacent pair of elongated conductive members are vertically spaced in a manner that is non-constant along the length of said pair of elongated conductive members and are transversely spaced in a manner that gradually increases and then gradually decreases along the length of said elongated conductive members, and wherein the elongated conductive members on outside edges of said connector curve away from the longitudinal axis of said connector.