Method of manufacturing composite contact

A method of manufacturing composite contact in which a flange section with a large diameter is formed at an end part of a base part with a small diameter, the composite contact having:

• a contact section which is made from silver alloy into an upper-surface part of the flange section;
• and a leg section which is made from copper alloy by forming a large-diameter part on which a back surface of the contact section is joined so as to form a lower-surface part of the flange section integrally with the base part with the small diameter, comprising the steps of:
• a primary-forming process forging a copper-alloy wire and a silver-alloy wire having an outer diameter smaller than that of the copper-alloy wire in a hole of a forming die in a state of being butted to each other so as to form a primary-formed body comprising a silver-alloy part and a copper-alloy part so that the silver-alloy wire and the copper-alloy wire are bonded by expanding the outer diameter of the silver-alloy wire into an inner diameter of the hole in a state in which radial-expansion of the copper-alloy wire is restricted by an inner peripheral surface of the hole;
• and a secondary-forming process forging an end part of the primary-formed body including the silver-copper part, a bonding interface between the silver-alloy part and the copper-alloy part, and the copper-alloy part so as to form the flange section.