Patent ID: 8579638

Claim:
A pressfit contact for connecting an electronic component to a circuit board, said pressfit contact of the electronic component being able to be pressfitted when the pressfit contact is connected to the electronic component by a pressfit tool into a contact opening of the circuit board in a pressfit direction perpendicular to the circuit board, wherein the pressfit contact comprises at least one guide area which can be accommodated fixed in location in a guide contour of the pressfit tool, said guide area having a maximum guide length and a maximum width; the pressfit contact includes an electrical component connection end opposite an insertion end of the pressfit contact configured to be inserted into the contact opening, the electrical connection end including a connection portion laterally displaced from a longitudinal axis of the insertion end a distance sufficient to permit the pressfit tool to pressfit the pressfit contact into the contact opening without interference from the electrical component; said maximum guide length of the guide area being a multiple of the maximum width or being essentially equal to or only slightly less than the maximum width; and said guide area having lower flexibility in the pressfit direction than in directions orthogonal to the pressfit direction.