Patent ID: 9287654
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: H01R

Claim Text:
1. An electric connector comprising: a connector terminal including a contact portion that is conductively connected with a mating connector terminal of a mating connector and an elastic portion that elastically supports the contact portion, the mating connector terminal serving as a connection object, the contact portion being formed of a metallic plate, the contact portion including a front contact-point portion and a rear contact-point portion at a plate edge portion of the contact portion, the front contact-point portion and the rear contact-point portion being mutually independent of each other and successively contacting a planar terminal surface of the mating connector terminal in a fitting direction, wherein the front contact-point portion is provided with a sliding, the sliding edge wiping off foreign material adhered to the terminal surface by slidingly contacting the mating connector terminal up to a contact position where the electric connector and the mating connector are in a fitted state from when the sliding edge contacts the terminal surface of the mating connector terminal, and wherein the rear contact-point portion is provided with a triangular thin-walled portion and a contact edge of the rear contact-point portion is thinner than the front contact-point portion and a sliding width of the rear contact-point portion is narrower than that of the sliding edge of the front contact-point portion, the contact edge being formed of a plate edge of the metallic plate, and the contact edge being conductively connected with the mating connector terminal at a sliding path at the terminal surface where the foreign material has been wiped off by the sliding edge of the front contact-point portion thereby to provide a stable conductive connection.