Hermaphroditic electrical contact member

Claim 1

A hermaphroditic electrical contact member, comprising a body having a rectangular section to form a channel therein, said body comprising: means for fixing an electrical conductor; a floor wall extended at an end opposite said electrical conductor fixing means, said floor wall being extended at a free end by a strip bent against an outside face of said floor wall to form a male tongue; two lateral walls formed by extensions of said floor wall, each of said two lateral walls being formed in a plane generally perpendicular to said floor wall; a ceiling wall formed from extensions of said two lateral walls being bent to extend parallel to said floor wall in a common plane; and a resilient contact arm bent along a lug in at least one of said extensions of said two lateral walls forming said ceiling wall to lie inside said channel, said resilient contact arm being curved so that a free end of said resilient contact arm is directed towards said male tongue extending inside said channel, wherein said at least one of said extensions of each of said two lateral walls is joined to said resilient contact arm by said lug at a point partway along said resilient contact arm.