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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ludger Sorig, Ascheberg, DE;
Assignee:
Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co. KG., Ludenscheid, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
439 82 ;
Abstract
A pin shaped contact element for contact-making fixing in metal coated holes of electric printed circuit boards. A press-in region is provided with a longitudinal hole and an adjacent connection region. To create a press-in region which produces an air tight electric connection between the coating of the hole and the press-in region during the pressing-in process and avoid chips forming from the metal coating, edge regions of the longitudinal sides of the two contact limbs extend at an acute angle to each other in a V shape. The limbs have a rounded shape. In each of the two sides, at least one longitudinal channel is integrally formed.