SPRING WIRE, CONTACT PROBE, AND PROBE UNIT

摘要

Provided herein are a spring wire rod that can ensure conductivity capable of dealing with a high-frequency signal having a frequency of equal to or higher than 1 GHz while ensuring a spring characteristic, a contact probe using the spring wire rod, and a probe unit using the contact probe. The spring wire rod includes a wire core that is made of a conductive material having an electrical resistivity of equal to or slower than 5.00 × 10 -8 ©€¢m, and a coating member 3 that is made of a spring material having a longitudinal elastic modulus of equal to or higher than 1.00 × 10 4 kgf/mm 2 and coats an outer circumference of the core. A coating thickness d of the coating member is smaller than a minimum value r of a distance between the center of gravity of a transverse cross section of the core and the outer edge of the transverse cross section.