Patent ID: 8749330

Claim:
A method for producing an electric contact element, with which electric contact can be made by a mating contact, the method comprising the following steps: manipulating a wire of a first electrically conductive material, the wire having a sheath of a second electrically conductive material, to partially remove the sheath in a direction along a wire longitudinal axis; forming at least one cylindrical semifinished product by subdividing the wire in a direction transverse with respect to the wire longitudinal axis; fixing the semifinished product to a contact carrier, so that the second electrically conductive material is connected to the contact carrier; reshaping the fixed semifinished product to form the contact element with a contact area which is accessible to a mating contact, the contact area being formed of the first electrically conductive material, wherein the step of the partial removal of the sheath in a direction along the wire longitudinal axis comprises scraping off part of the wire in an axial direction, so that, on the circular cross section of the wire, one segment is removed.