Contact for a battery connector

Abstract

A contact is mounted in a battery connector of an electronic device and has a soldering section, a body section, a resilient section, two inclined gaps and a contacting section. The body section extends from the soldering section and has a first end and a second end. The resilient section extends from the body section and has a first end, a second end and a tapered segment. The first end of the resilient section is connected to the second end of the body section. The tapered segment is tapered toward the first end of the resilient section. The inclined gaps are defined in the second end of the body section to form the tapered segment. The contacting segment extends from the second end of the resilient section. With the inclined gaps, the contact is compact, resilient and has a low material cost.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a plane view of a contact in accordance with present invention with the contact spreading in a plane for illustration;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the contact in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the contacts in FIG. 1 mounted in an insulative housing to form a battery connector; and

FIG. 4 is an operational perspective view of the battery connector shown in FIG. 3 mounted on a printed circuit board, in which the contacts are electrically connected to a battery.

Claims

1. A contact for a battery connector, the contact comprising: a soldering section; a body section extending from the soldering section and having two opposite sides;a resilient section, extending from the body section and having two opposite sides;two opposite inclined gaps defined respectively in the opposite sides at the second end of the body section; anda contacting section extending from the resilient section.

2. The contact as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the body section has a first end connected to the soldering section and a second end;the resilient section has a first end connected to the second end of the body section and a second end; andthe gaps are located respectively adjacent to the opposite sides of the resilient section.

3. The contact as claimed in claim 2, wherein the resilient section further has a tapered segment formed on the resilient section, located adjacent to and tapered toward the first end of the resilient section, extending deeply into the second end of the body section and having two opposite inclined sides; and the inclined gaps are located respectively outside and adjacent to the inclined sides of the tapered segment of the resilient section and are inclined gradually inward toward each other as the inclined gaps extends gradually into the second end of the body section to form the tapered segment.

4. The contact as claimed in claim 3, wherein: the resilient section is U-shaped; andthe contacting section is U-shaped.

5. The contact as claimed in claim 4, wherein the body section further has two notches transversely defined respectively in the sides of the body section.

6. The contact as claimed in claim 5, wherein the notches in the body section are V-shaped.