Patent ID: 6848954

Claim:
A single-piece electrical contact element having a substantially cylindrical contact tube for resiliently receiving a substantially cylindrical contact pin, the contact tube comprising: a contact tube main part, which extends over at least a substantial part of a length of the contact tube and over a first circumferential sub-region of a circumference of the contact tube, and at least one radially resilient spring arm, connected to one circumferential end of the contact tube main part and extending over a second circumferential sub-region of the contact tube circumference, wherein the spring arm projects radially outwardly in a first circumferential region adjacent to the contact tube main part and has a cylindrical free-standing circumferential end region, wherein the contact pin inserted into the contact tube only contacts the contact tube at a first contact touch zone at the contact tube main part and at a second contact touch zone at the free-standing end region of the spring arm.