Improved contact element and method of manufacture.

摘要

In a contact element for receipt in a plated through hole of a printed circuit board and having a compliant section (16) defined by two legs (20, 22) offset along a shear plane the legs (20, 22) are prestressed by being initially spaced apart in opposite directions and then pushed back towards each other to a predetermined relative position to resize the compliant section (16). This has the result that hole distortion is lessened without loss of retention forces.