US 12,218,473 B2
Method for configuring an electrical contact zone on/in a terminal, and electrical terminal
Jochen Brandt, Woert (DE); Isabell Buresch, Woert (DE); Thomas Steinacker, Woert (DE); Ruediger Meier, Bensheim (DE); and Christian Bergmann, Woert (DE)
Assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed by TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed on May 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/313,530.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 112 561.5 (DE), filed on May 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0352804 A1, Nov. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. H01R 4/58 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 4/58 (2013.01) 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical connector, comprising:
an electrical terminal having an upper surface including a distal end and a spring arm extending in a proximal direction, and a contact portion between the distal end and the spring arm having a contact zone with a plurality of contact domes aligned in a transverse direction across the upper surface, wherein each of the respective contact domes is adjacent a contact zone and is configured to bend away from a corresponding contact dome wherein a lower surface of the spring arm is disposed below a lower surface of the distal end, a surface of one of the plurality of contact domes has a plurality of flow lines due to compression forming.