Electrical contact and electric component socket

Abstract

An electrical contact and an electric component socket configured to be electrically connected to an electric component, wherein the electrical contact is capable of preventing a defect that a contacting portion of the electrical contact bites into a terminal of the electric component, leaving an indentation or giving rise to a state where burrs are liable to occur. An electrical contact has a contacting portion that comes in contact with a terminal of an electric component, the contacting portion includes a plurality of convex portions provided around a center in a tip portion of the contacting portion, the convex portions have flat portions on an outer circumferential side, and peak-shaped portions extending from the flat portions toward the center to come in contact with the terminal, and the contacting portion includes valley-shaped portions, each valley-shaped portion being formed between the respective convex portions in the plurality of convex portions.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.