Electrically conductive contact pin and method for manufacturing same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2026009821-A1
Application number	US-202318997184-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 18, 2023
Priority date	Aug 1, 2022
Publication date	Jan 8, 2026
Grant date	—

Abstract

Proposed are an electrically conductive contact pin and a method for manufacturing the same. The electrically conductive contact pin includes a body portion composed of a plurality of metal layers stacked in a thickness direction, and a tip portion provided on at least one of a front end portion and a base end portion of the body portion, wherein the tip portion has dimensions smaller than the dimensions of the thickness direction of the body portion, and a metal layer constituting the tip portion is formed continuously of the same material as some of the metal layers constituting the body portion.

First claim

1 . An electrically conductive contact pin comprising:
a body portion composed of a plurality of metal layers stacked in a thickness direction; and a tip portion provided on at least one of a front-end portion and a base-end portion of the body portion, wherein the tip portion has dimensions smaller than dimensions of the body portion in the thickness direction, and a metal layer constituting the tip portion is formed continuously of a same material as some of the metal layers constituting the body portion.

2 . The pin of claim 1 , wherein the tip portion is composed of a plurality of metal layers stacked in the thickness direction, and has a stacked number smaller than that of the metal layers constituting the body portion.

3 . The pin of claim 1 , wherein lowermost and uppermost layers of the body portion are composed of a first metal layer, whereas a lowermost layer of the tip portion is composed of a second metal layer and an uppermost layer of the tip portion is composed of the first metal layer.

4 . The pin of claim 1 , wherein a fine trench is provided on a side of the body portion and a side of the tip portion.

5 . The pin of claim 1 , wherein a slit provided inside the body portion is comprised, and the body portion elastically deforms in a width direction.

6 . The pin of claim 1 , wherein the body portion comprises an elastic portion provided by bending a plate, and the elastic portion elastically deforms in a length direction.

7 . An electrically conductive contact pin comprising:
a first region composed of a plurality of metal layers stacked in a thickness direction; a second region having smaller dimensions than dimensions of the first region in the thickness direction, having a stacked number smaller than that of the metal layers constituting the first region, and comprising a metal layer formed continuously with some of the metal layers constituting the first region; and a third region located between the first region and the second region and connecting metal layers of a same material of the first region and the second region.

8 . The pin of claim 7 , wherein the second region is a tip portion that contacts an object to be connected.

9 . The pin of claim 7 , wherein the metal layers comprise a first metal layer and a second metal layer,
wherein the first metal layer is formed of a metal selected from rhodium (Rd), platinum (Pt), iridium (Ir), palladium (Pd), nickel (Ni), manganese (Mn), tungsten (W), phosphorus (Ph) or alloys thereof, or palladium-cobalt (PdCo) alloy, palladium-nickel (PdNi) alloy, or nickel-phosphorus (NiPh) alloy, nickel-manganese (NiMn), nickel-cobalt (NiCo) or Nickel-tungsten (NiW) alloy, whereas the second metal layer is formed of a metal selected from copper (Cu), silver (Ag), gold (Au), or alloys thereof.

10 . The pin of claim 9 , wherein the first metal layer is provided at lowermost and uppermost layers of the first region, whereas the second metal layer is provided at lowermost layers of the second and third regions, and the first metal layer is provided at uppermost layers of the second and third regions.

11 . The pin of claim 7 , wherein a metal layer of the third region comprises:
a first connection portion connected to a metal layer of the first region; a second connection portion connected to a metal layer of the second region; and a middle portion provided between the first connection portion and the second connection portion.

12 . The pin of claim 11 , wherein one of metal layers constituting the third region is in contact with the plurality of metal layers of the first region.

13 . The pin of claim 12 , wherein the middle portion is composed of a second metal layer.

14 . A method for manufacturing an electrically conductive contact pin, the method comprising:
forming a first internal space by removing a part of a mold; forming a metal layer in a first height section of the first internal space; removing a part of the mold and forming a second internal space in communication with the first internal space; and forming a metal layer in a second height section of the first internal space and in the second internal space.

15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein in the forming a metal layer in a first height section of the first internal space, metal layers are alternately plated to form the metal layer.

16 . The method of claim 14 , wherein in the forming a metal layer in a second height section of the first internal space and in the second internal space, metal layers are alternately plated to form the metal layer.

17 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the mold is a mold made of an anodic oxide material.

Assignees

• Point Engineering Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ahn Bum Mo
• Park Seung Ho
• Byun Sung Hyun

Classifications

• G01R31/2601 Primary

  Apparatus or methods therefor (G01R31/2607, G01R31/2642 take precedence) · CPC title

• G01R1/06761

  related to layers · CPC title

• G01R1/06716

  Elastic · CPC title

• G01R1/06755

  Material aspects · CPC title

• G01R1/06733

  Geometry aspects (G01R1/06727 takes precedence) · CPC title