Patent ID: 7080451

Claim:
A method of manufacturing an electronic component comprising a contact having a terminal section for brazing and a contact section, said method comprising the steps of: constructing a base member of said contact made of a material which is poorly wettable to a weld brazing material by forming a primer plating layer made of a material which is poorly wettable to said weld brazing material on said base member; forming on said base member a finish plating layer made of a material which is highly wettable to the weld brazing material to form the finish plating layer on the primer plating layer, and forming an exposed region of said poorly wettable base member by selectively removing a portion of said highly wettable finish plating layer by means of a mechanical processing technique to selectively remove both a portion of said primer plating layer and a portion of said finish plating layer by a mechanical processing technique, said exposed region of said poorly wettable base member serving as an arresting region for arresting creeping-up of said weld brazing material.