US 12,334,663 B2
Electrical contact element
Alexander Hieber, Herrenberg (DE); Holger Ritter, Wurmberg (DE); Ulrich Rosemeyer, Schieder-Schwalenberg (DE); Fehim Domazet, Calw-Heumaden (DE); Juergen Sahm, Ammerbuch (DE); Benjamin Herwanger, Bondorf (DE); and Henning Steeg, Bondorf (DE)
Assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG, Blomberg (DE)
Appl. No. 17/799,940
Filed by Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG, Blomberg (DE)
PCT Filed Dec. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/DE2020/101074
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 16, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/164800, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020/5108 (BE), filed on Feb. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0062066 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 13/11 (2006.01); H01R 4/02 (2006.01); H01R 43/02 (2006.01); H01R 43/16 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/111 (2013.01) [H01R 4/02 (2013.01); H01R 43/02 (2013.01); H01R 43/16 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An integral stamped-rolled electrical contact element, comprising:
a terminal portion and an adjoining soldered portion configured to electrically contact a contact face by a soldered connection,
wherein the soldered portion comprises a slit in a longitudinal direction,
wherein an interior space of the soldered portion is at least one of continuously hollow, interrupted, or at least partially filled in the longitudinal direction, and
wherein sleeve edges formed along the slit are bent inward and protrude into the interior space of the soldered portion.