Connector for printed wire board

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION WITH A CONNECTOR BODY PART HAVING A LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING CHANNEL AND A TRANSVERSELY ORIENTED CONTACT RECEIVING CAVITY INTERSECTING SAID CHANNEL, SAID CAVITY HAVING A BOTTOM WALL AND OPPOSED END WALLS AND AN OPENING EXTENDING UPWARDLY INTO SAID CAVITY THROUGH THE BOTTOM WALL IN SPACED, OPPOSED RELATIONSHIP A PAIR OF CONTACT MEMBERS MOUNTED WITHIN SAID CAVITY ADJACENT EACH END WALL IN SPACED, OPPOSED RELATIONSHIP TO ONE ANOTHER AND ADAPTED TO RECEIVE A LONGITUDINALLY ORIENTED MALE MEMBER IN FRICTIONALLY GRIPPED RELATIONSHIP THEREBETWEEN WITH AT LEAST ONE OF SAID CONTACT MEMBERS ADAPTED TO BE ELECTRICALLY COUPLED WITH SAID MALE MEMBER, EACH OF SAID CONTACT MEMBERS INCLUDING A SPRING LEG PORTION JUXTAPOSED TO EACH END WALL OF THE CAVITY AND EXTENDING THROUGH SAID OPENING AND TERMINATING IN A FREE END OUTSIDE THE CAVITY THEREOF, EACH OF SAID SPRING LEG PORTIONS BEING INCLINED SLIGHTLY UPWARDLY AND INWARDLY FROM A POINT ADJACENT THE BOTTOM WALL OF SAID CAVITY AND FORMING A FIRST FLEXURE ZONE THEREAT, EACH OF SAID SPRING LEG PORTIONS AT THE OUTSIDE FREE END THEREOF BEING ADAPTED TO BE CONNECTED TO AN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR, A CONTACT PORTION HAVING AN UPPER PORTION AND A LOWER PORTION SECURED AT ONE END TO THE OTHER END OF EACH OF SAID SPRING LEG PORTIONS WITH THE UPPER PORTION OF EACH CONTACT PORTION EXTENDING INWARDLY AND DOWNWARDLY IN THE DIRECTION OF ONE ANOTHER, THE POINT OF JOINTURE OF EACH OF SAID UPPER PORTIONS TO EACH SPRING LEG PORTION FORMING A SECOND FLEXURE ZONE THEREAT, THE LOWER PORTION OF EACH CONTACT PORTION EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY FROM SAID UPPER PORTION IN GENERALLY SPACED PARALLEL RELATIONSHIP TO THE SPRING LEG PORTION AND TO EACH OTHER FOR A DISTANCE SUFFICIENT TO FORM A PASSAGEWAY BETWEEN THE LOWER PORTION OF EACH CONTACT PORTION HAVING A SUBSTANTIAL CONTACTING SURFACE WHICH WILL FRICTIONALLY ENGAGE A MALE MEMBER WHEN INSERTED INTO THE PASSAGEWAY, THE WIDTH BETWEEN SAID LOWER PORTIONS BEING NORMALLY LESS THAN THE WIDTH OF THE MALE MEMBER TO BE INSERTED THEREIN, A LEAF SPRING PORTION INTEGRALLY JOINED AT ONE END TO THE FREE END OF EACH OF SAID LOWER PORTIONS OF SAID CONTACT PORTIONS AND EXTENDING UPWARDLY AND INWARDLY FROM THE LOWER PORTION OF EACH CONTACT PORTION IN THE DIRECTION OF ITS CORRESPONDING LEG PORTION, EACH OF SAID FIRST FLEXURE POINTS NORMALLY BIASING EACH SPRING LEG AND ITS CONTACT PORTION IN THE DIRECTION AWAY FROM THE JUXTAPOSED CAVITY END WALL WITH EACH OF SAID FIRST FLEXURE POINTS BEING RELATIVELY PLIANT AS A RESULT OF THE LENGTH OF EACH LEG PORTION SO AS TO BE OVERCOME BY A RELATIVELY SMALL FORCE APPLIED AGAINST EACH CONTACT PORTION UPON INITIAL INSERTION OF THE MALE MEMBER INTO SAID CHANNEL TO MOVE EACH OF SAID LEG PORTIONS AND CONTACT PORTIONS INWARDLY IN THE DIRECTION OF THE RESPECTIVE END WALLS OF THE CAVITY; SAID SECOND FLEXURE ZONE OF EACH CONTACT MEMBER BEING RELATIVELY STIFF AS A RESULT OF THE SHORTNESS OF THE UPPER CONTACT PORTION OF EACH CONTACT PORTION AND THE FORMED PASSAGEWAY BETWEEN THE LOWER PORTIONS AND THE LEAF SPRING PORTION SO AS TO BE OVERCOME ONLY BY A GREATER FORCE APPLIED AGAINST SUCH CONTACT PORTION BY SAID MALE MEMBER SUBSEQUENT TO THE INITIAL INSERTION THEREOF INTO SAID CAVITY BY THE RELATIVELY SMALL FORCE.