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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2000
Martin Gollhofer, Fellbach, DE;
Wolfgang Haller, Schwaikheim, DE;
ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A socket contact (,) for receiving a pin contact (,) of small diameter, especially a contact pin of a PCMCIA plug. The socket contact is formed of sheet metal and has a substantially flat base (,), a spacing part (,) extending upward from the front end of the base, and a top contact part (,) extending rearward from the top of the spacing part. The spacing part has a circular hole (,) for passing the pin contact until the pin contact is pressed upward by a tongue (,) formed in the base and is pressed downward by the top contact part. To prevent bending of the spacing part when the tongue and top contact part apply a large clamping force to the pin, the spacing part is formed with support regions (,) where sheet metal at opposite sides of the spacing part are bent to extend rearwardly.