Patent ID: 7291046

Claim:
An electrical contact assembly comprising: a main body configured to receive and retain a wire; contact legs associated with said main body and configured to mate with a mating structure; an interlocking member that limits spreading of said contact legs; and a first resilient beam connected to one of said contact legs and a first portion of said interlocking member, and a second resilient beam connected to another of said contact legs and a second portion of said interlocking member, wherein each of said first portion and said second portion of said interlocking member includes a top surface and a bottom surface, such that when said first portion of said interlocking member is interlocked with said second portion of said interlocking member, each of said top surfaces and said bottom surfaces of said first portion and said second portion of said interlocking member are, respectively, coplanar, wherein the interlocking member comprises a first finger separated from a second finger by a gap, wherein when said contact legs begin to spread span, said first finger abuts against said second finger, thereby removing said gap therebetween said hafting movement of said first and second fingers and said contact legs, wherein at least one of the first and second fingers is one of L-shaped and C-shaped.