Electrical contact and connector and method of manufacture
OwnerChe-Yu Liinventor
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Abstract
An electrical contact (2) and method of making the electrical contact (2), and a connector (11) and method making the connector (11), wherein the electrical contact (2) is an electrically conducting, interlaced mesh (40), with edges of the mesh providing multiple contact points for edgewise electrical connection of the electrical contact (2), wherein the mesh (40) is annealed while restrained in the form of the electrical contact (2) wherein the mesh (40) is free of internal elastic strain, or the mesh (40) is hardened, and wherein the connector (11) retains the electrical contact (2) for edgewise connection.
Claims43
An electrical contact comprising:
- an electrically conducting, interlaced mesh, wherein the mesh comprises an unsupported electrical contact substantially free of elastic strain while in the form of the unsupported electrical contact, and the electrical contact is hardened.
An electrical contact comprising:
- an electrically conducting, interlaced mesh, wherein the mesh comprises an unsupported electrical contact substantially free of elastic strain while in the form of the unsupported electrical contact, wherein the electrical contact has a compacted cross section, and wherein the compacted cross section is substantially relieved of elastic strain.
A method of making an electrical contact comprising:
- forming a conducting interlaced mesh to the shape of at least one electrical contact for edgewise electrical connection;
- annealing the mesh while constraining the mesh in the form of said at least one electrical contact;
- and
- compressing the mesh to harden the mesh.
A method of making an electrical contact comprising:
- forming a conducting interlaced mesh to the shape of at least one electrical contact for edgewise electrical connection;
- annealing the mesh while constraining the mesh in the form of said at least one electrical contact;
- compacting the mesh to a compact form of said at least one electrical contact;
- and
- annealing while constraining the mesh in the compact form.
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A method of making an electrical connector, comprising:
- forming a conducting interlaced mesh to the shape of at least one electrical contact for edgewise electrical connection;
- annealing the mesh while constraining the mesh in the form of said at least one electrical contact;
- compressing the mesh to harden the mesh;
- and
- retaining each electrical contact in a carrier.
A method of making an electrical connector, comprising:
- forming a conducting interlaced mesh to the shape of at least one electrical contact for edgewise electrical connection;
- annealing the mesh while constraining the mesh in the form of said at least one electrical contact;
- compacting the mesh to a compact form of said at least one electrical contact;
- annealing the compact form of said at least one electrical contact;
- and
- retaining said at least one electrical contact in a carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.