Male contact

Abstract

There is provided a male contact which is high in reliability of an electric contact with the female contact and has a mating section capable of being formed with compactness using a plate member having a plate thickness satisfying a desired strength. The male contact 1 has a mating section 10 formed in such a manner that two sheets of plate members 11 and 12, which individually extend from a base 20, are superposed on one another by folding on said base 20. Said mating section 10 has flat sections 15 extending in a mating direction P, wherein outer surfaces of said two sheets of plate members 11-1 and 12-1 are formed flat. A tip 13 of one 12 of said two sheets of plate members is folded to overlap a tip 14 of another plate member 11. This feature makes it hard to open the plate members 11 and 12 when the male contact is mated with the female contact.

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