Contact pin
AssigneeInovan GmbH & Co. KG. Metalle und Bauelemente
InventorWilhelm Tilse
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Abstract
In a contact pin for insertion into metal-coated bores in a contact panel which pin includes a leading guide section followed by a contact section and a connecting section the contact section is S-shaped in cross-section providing for spring arms with contact surface areas at their radial outer ends which have a relatively large even resiliency over the full length of the contact section thereby providing for good but never excessive contact pressure of the contact surfaces on the spring arms with the walls of the bores into which the contact pins are inserted and furthermore avoiding damage to the contact metal coatings upon insertion of the pin into a bore.
Claims7
A contact pin for insertion into metal-coated bores of contact panels, said pin consisting of a leading guide section, an axially subsequent contact section and a connecting section, said contact section being S-shaped in cross-section thereby providing opposite curved radial spring arms with contact surface areas at the radial ends of the arms adapted to provide predetermined specific contact surface pressures over the full axial length of the contact section, said S-shaped spring arms having vertices between the center line of the pin and the outer ends of the arms and the cross-section of said arms being largest at said vertices.
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