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.
Claims7
An electrical connector suitable for electrically interconnecting confronting conductive pads, said electrical connector, comprising:
- one or more electrical contacts, wherein each of the electrical contacts is in the form of an electrically conducting interlaced mesh that forms a tube having spaced-apart open ends defined by conducting edges, wherein the electrical contact is hardened, and wherein the conducting edges of the mesh tube provide multiple contact points for edgewise electrical connection by axial compression of the electrical contact so as to provide an electrical pathway to a conducting pad;
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- a carrier spaced from at least one of said spaced-apart open ends and holding each of the electrical contacts for edgewise electrical connection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.