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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2011
David Allison Trout, Lancaster, PA (US);
James Charles Shiffler, Hummelstown, PA (US);
David Allison Trout, Lancaster, PA (US);
James Charles Shiffler, Hummelstown, PA (US);
Tyco Electronics Corporation, Berwyn, PA (US);
Abstract
An electrical contact including an elongated contact body that has a compliant tail, a mating beam, and a channel section extending between the compliant tail and the mating beam. The channel section has a base wall and sidewalls that extend from the base wall. The base wall and the sidewalls extend around a central longitudinal axis to define a flow channel. The channel section includes a flow-limiting feature that is configured to impede capillary flow of a plating solution along the channel section from the compliant tail to the mating beam.