Contact arrangement

US6196852A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG · DE

Inventors

• Gerd Neumann · Greding, DE
• Hans-Jurgen Thoene · Paderborn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 4, 1999
• Grant date: Mar 6, 2001
• Expiry date: Oct 4, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01R12/714
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A contact arrangement and method of producing the contact arrangement for electrical connection between mutually opposite contact points disposed on a surface of a first and second substrate. The contact arrangement further includes an insulating body disposed between the surfaces of the first and second substrate. The insulating body has holes extending between opposite sides of the insulating body wherein a conductive layer is disposed on a surface of the holes. A contact element mat is disposed on opposite sides of the insulating body. The contact element mat includes interconnected contact elements having projections respectively engaging depressions that surround each hole.