Contact element

The invention discloses a contact, which comprises a reed and a clamping shell, the reed is inserted and clamped in the clamping shell, the reed comprises an upper reed and a lower reed which are arranged up and down to form a slot, each of the upper reed and the lower reed comprises a reed base body and a cantilever, and the reed base body is provided with a plurality of cantilevers; the cantilevers comprise the long cantilevers and the short cantilevers, one short cantilever is arranged between every two adjacent long cantilevers, and the connecting positions of the short cantilevers and the reed base body are bent downwards so that the short cantilevers and the long cantilevers can be located on the planes of different heights. When the reed base body is compressed, the cantilevers on the reed base body are compressed to form an upper long cantilever plane and a lower short cantilever plane, the width of the reed base body is reduced, under the condition, if the width of the reed base body is not changed,