Patent ID: 7300319

Claim:
Electrical contact comprising: a contact element ( 2 ), which has a connection portion ( 5 ) for an electrically conducting connection to an electrical conductor, has a contact holding portion ( 8 ), connected integrally to the connection portion ( 5 ), for contacting a mating contact, and a support element ( 3 ), which encloses the contact holding portion ( 8 ) at least at a length portion thereof along a longitudinal axis ( 4 ) and formed in cross-section as a hollow rectangle delimited by four walls ( 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ), has along the longitudinal axis ( 4 ) a front end ( 16 ) and a rear end ( 17 ), with the rear end ( 17 ) facing the connection portion ( 5 ), has a first projection ( 18 ) close to the front end ( 16 ), which first projection ( 18 ) has a first insertion portion ( 19 ) which distance from the longitudinal axis ( 4 ) increases in a direction from the front end ( 16 ) towards the rear end ( 17 ) and has side walls ( 22 ) and ends with an end edge ( 20 ), has a second projection ( 23 ) close to the rear end ( 17 ), which second projection ( 23 ) has a second insertion portion ( 24 ), which distance to the longitudinal axis ( 4 ) increases in a direction towards the rear end ( 17 ) in an inclined manner away from the first projection ( 18 ) relative to the longitudinal axis ( 4 ), wherein the first projection ( 18 ) as well as the second projection ( 23 ) are formed by non-cutting working from one of the walls ( 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ), so that they project away from the longitudinal axis ( 4 ) from that wall ( 14 ).