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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 1998

Filed:

Nov. 12, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Manfred Schneider, Lichtenfels, DE;

Dietmar Clauss, Altenkunstadt, DE;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
200268 ; 200270 ;
Abstract

A contact includes a silver contact base, an intermediate silver layer and a solder in the form of a platelet being provisionally fastened or tacked to the intermediate silver layer prior to an actual soldering operation. The silver contact base is soldered onto a contact carrier by the intermediate silver layer and the solder platelet. A method for making a contact includes pressing an intermediate silver layer onto a silver contact base, then provisionally fastening or tacking a solder in the form of a platelet to the intermediate silver layer and subsequently placing a contact carrier on the solder platelet and soldering the contact carrier to the solder platelet.


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