Patent ID: 7040902

Claim:
An electrical contact for electrically engaging first and second confronting conductive pads comprising a plurality of interlaced, annealed, and unsupported wires comprising at least three discrete wires that have been manipulated together so as to interlace them to form a unitary open-ended tubular structure that is substantially free of elastic strain while in the form of said unsupported, open-ended tubular structure, having a first circumferential contact edge that is (i) formed by a first free end of each of said at least three discrete wires, and (ii) engapeble by axial compression of said electrical contact, and a second circumferential contact edge spaced axially from said first circumferential contact edge that is (iii) formed by a second free end of each of said at least three discrete wires, and (iv) engagable by said axial compression of said electrical contact.