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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2009
Attalee S. Taylor, Palmyra, PA (US);
Attalee S. Taylor, Palmyra, PA (US);
Tyco Electronics Corporation, Berwyn, PA (US);
Abstract
A contact assembly includes a bifurcated contact and a mating contact. The bifurcated contact is elongated along a longitudinal axis with contact tips protruding from a common end of the bifurcated contact. The mating contact has an outer end and a body elongated along a major axis. The body includes a mating surface along a front face of the body. The outer end includes angled lead-in ramps that form transitions from the outer end to the mating surface. The lead-in ramps extend away from one another toward opposite sides of the mating contact. The bifurcated contact and the mating contact engage one another such that the contact tips of the bifurcated contact are directed along corresponding different lead-in ramps of the mating contact.