| 摘要 |
A compliant electrical contact (10) and an assembly (12) employing a plurality of the contacts that provides an interface between two electrical devices (2, 4). The contact has a convoluted spring (20) with convolutions (22) and a contact point (30a, 30b) at each end. In one contact embodiment, the convolutions have appendages (24) which electrically short adjacent convolutions throughout a significant portion of the compression range of the contact. An appendage may be a single finger (32) that extends from one convolution toward the adjacent convolution, a pair of opposed fingers (32a, 32b) that extend toward each other from adjacent convolutions, or machined edges on adjacent convolutions. In some configurations, the fingers or a surface on the appendage or fingers are at a skew angle (34) to the direction of compression (16). In another contact embodiment, a shunt (110) spans most or all of the convolutions longitudinally. |
