Contact

A contact that, by being soldered to a conductive- pattern in an electronic circuit board so as to make contact with a conductive member separate from the electronic circuit board, electrically connects or couples the conductive pattern to the conductive member, the contact comprising:

• a fixing portion configured to be fixed to the electronic circuit board by the soldering;
• an elastic contact piece extending from the fixing portion, the elastic contact piece being configured to be capable of swinging relative to the fixing portion by elastically deforming, and the elastic contact piece being further configured to contact the conductive member and elastically deform so as to be pressed by the conductive member when the conductive member is arranged in a position opposite from the electronic circuit board;
• and
• a pair of projecting tabs projecting from the fixing portion at positions on both sides of the elastic contact piece, wherein
• the fixing portion, the elastic contact piece, and the pair of projecting tabs are formed as an integrated entity from a metal thin plate;
• a dimension of the elastic contact piece in a width direction, the width direction matching a direction of an interval between the projecting tabs, is a first dimension, and the elastic contact piece is configured to be capable of swinging in a direction orthogonal to the width direction;
• and
• each projecting tab is configured as a flat plate having the same thickness as the thin plate, and the projecting tabs are arranged such that thickness directions of the projecting tabs are the same direction and inner surfaces of the projecting tabs face each other, with an interval between the inner surfaces being a second dimension greater than the first dimension.