Patent ID: 7044753

Claim:
A contact assembly having a contact spring strip and a detent strip of a front plate of a component support, wherein the contact spring strip has a contact leg and a holding strip and mounts on the detent strip with the contact leg and the holding strip disposed on oppositely located sides of the detent strip, the contact leg is bent off from the holding strip, and the contact leg has an end opposite the holding strip that is freely swivelable and can be deflected toward the detent strip, the contact assembly comprising: the contact leg ( 16 ) extending continuously in a longitudinal direction of the contact spring strip ( 10 ); wherein the contact leg bent away from a bar of the contact spring strip; catches punched out in a transition area between the bar and the contact leg and bent off toward the detent strip of the front plate; and the holding strip connected via a cap section with the bar, wherein the holding strip, the bar and the cap section at least partially enclose a head section at an end of the detent strip and wherein the contact leg is angled off the bar away from the detent strip.