Patent ID: 7909620

Claim:
A socket contact that connects to a tabular tab-shaped contact and is mountable to a print substrate, the socket contact comprising: a substantially rectangular tabular base portion that is disposed on the print substrate; and a contact connecting portion that is disposed in a central portion of the base portion and connects to the tab-shaped contact; the base portion includes: an opening provided in a central portion through which the tab-shaped contact passes; a pair of first lead portions extending substantially parallel to the base portion in a mutually opposing orientation in a direction toward a first pair of wings and solderable to the print substrate; and a pair of second lead portions extending substantially parallel to the base portion from one of a second pair of wings orthogonal to the first pair of wings, and solderable to the print substrate; the contact connecting portion includes: a pair of first bending fragments such that one portion of the first pair of wings of the base portion is curved and extends substantially parallel in an insertion direction of the tab-shaped contact; a pair of first inverted arms such that each one wing of the first bending fragments is curved, and the pair of first inverted arms extend in mutually approaching directions, while front end portions thereof are separated apart from each other at a prescribed distance and invert toward an interior of the contact connecting portion; a pair of second bending fragments such that another of the second pair of wings of the base portion is curved and extends substantially parallel to the insertion direction of the tab-shaped contact; and a pair of second inverted arms extending from front ends of the pair of second bending fragments to the interior of the contact connecting portion, and inverted toward the opening, and wherein a contact point is provided on the front end face of the pair of first inverted arms to be in contact with one face of the tab-shaped contact; and a guiding face is provided on the pair of second inverted arms such that another face of the tab-shaped contact slides.