(19)
(11) EP 0 552 741 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
12.01.1994 Bulletin 1994/02

(43) Date of publication A2:
28.07.1993 Bulletin 1993/30

(21) Application number: 93100807.2

(22) Date of filing: 20.01.1993
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: H01R 43/16, H01R 4/18, H01R 13/04, C22F 1/08
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE ES FR GB IT NL SE

(30) Priority: 22.01.1992 DE 4201670

(71) Applicant: THE WHITAKER CORPORATION
Wilmington, Delaware 19808 (US)

(72) Inventor:
  • Kourimsky, Friedrich Josef Alois
    W-6140 Bensheim (DE)

(74) Representative: Klunker . Schmitt-Nilson . Hirsch 
Winzererstrasse 106
80797 München
80797 München (DE)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Electrical contact as well as material and method for producing the same


    (57) In an electrical contact (11) made by stamping and bending from one single metal strip and comprising at least one spring portion (13), for instance a contact spring portion, and at least one deformation portion (15) which is plastically deformed or to be deformed, for instance a crimping portion, the spring portion (13) has a higher temper than said deformation portion (15).






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