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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2021
Harting Electric Stiftung & Co. KG, Espelkamp, DE;
Jana Büttemeyer, Rahden, DE;
Gert Havermann, Wallenhorst, DE;
Marc Genau, Lübbecke, DE;
Dieter Rose, Rahden, DE;
HARTING Electric Stiftung & Co. KG, Espelkamp, DE;
Abstract
An electric contact element for use in a printed circuit board plug connector is formed with at least two opposing narrow faces and at least two opposing wide faces. At least one narrow face is designed to be used as a contact surface in order to be brought into an electrically conductive connection with a counter contact element. At least the contact surface of the contact element and of the counter contact element are designed to have identical structures, and the wide face has at least one rigid region and a flexible region.