CONTACT ELEMENT AND CONNECTOR

摘要

To provide a contact element which is capable of not only arranging beam portions at a narrower pitch but also facilitating insertion of a mating contact, and a connector. Second and fourth contact portions 16 and 18 are displaced from each other in an orthogonal direction DR which is orthogonal to an arranging direction DP of first and second beam portions 13 and 14 and a thickness direction DB of a linking portion 11. When a metal plate is blanked, the first and fourth contact portions 15 and 18 are displaced from each other in a longitudinal direction L of the first and second beam portions 13 and 14, and the second and third contact portions 16 and 17 are displaced from each other in the longitudinal direction L of the first and second beam portions 13 and 14.