The Whitaker Corporation

Christian Otto Bommel

Rolf Jetter

Antonio Lehner

David Bouwe Kuiper-Moore

Peter Donald Gaulton

A two-part electrical socket contact for insertion into a cavity of a housing the cavity having a flexible contact securing element, said contact being provided with a contact body comprising a contact making section for making contact with a complementary contact pin or contact blade, and a connecting section for making connection with an electrical conductor, the contact making section being provided with at least two facing contact springs, and an outer cantilever spring enveloping the contact making section of the contact body, the outer cantilever spring being basically of a box-shaped design comprising a top, a bottom and two sides, the top of the outer cantilever spring consisting of a lower and an upper layer with the upper layer running parallel but spaced apart from the lower layer, and being provided with an opening to accommodate the contact securing element and the edges of the upper layer being bent over at right angles towards the lower layer and with the upper layer being narrower in its width perpendicular to the plugging direction than the lower layer.

Two-part electrical socket contact

A tab terminal comprises an inner contact body and an outer spring body having a locking lance. The outer body is mounted over the inner body in a vertical direction, whereby inwardly bent tabs of the inner contact body receive a side wall of the outer body, the other side wall of the outer body having a clinching tab that engages in a cutout of the inner contact body. The latter enables a very simple assembly procedure that reduces assembly time, tool complication, and therefore production costs.

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Langen, Germany

Christian Otto Bommel