Patent ID: 7587244

Claim:
A contact arrangement for connecting an electrode line to an implantable device, comprising an electrical connecting socket configured for the implantable device with a socket longitudinal axis and at least one opening for the insertion of a plug along the socket longitudinal axis, at least one electrically conductive spring contact element which is arranged and adapted to deflect resiliently elastically outwardly upon insertion of a plug, in that case to be compressed at least in a spring deflection direction extending transversely with respect to the socket longitudinal axis and to provide a spring force acting in opposition to the compression, wherein the spring contact element has an integral metallic spring contact tongue with a socket spring contact tongue portion and a plug spring contact tongue portion which extend transversely with respect to the spring deflection direction and which are connected together by turn portions, wherein turn portions which occur in immediate succession in the spring deflection direction are turned towards each other with respectively opposite turn directions with the socket spring contact tongue portion and the plug spring contact tongue portion extending from the turn portions in opposite directions, and wherein the socket spring contact tongue portion and the plug spring contact tongue portion are compressed toward each other upon deflection.