Patent ID: 9647361
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: H01R

Claim:
1. A connector comprising a housing and a terminal, wherein: the housing has a terminal accommodation portion and a bottom portion; the terminal accommodation portion opens upward in an up-down direction; the bottom portion is positioned under the terminal accommodation portion; the terminal has a base portion, a spring portion and a contact portion; the base portion is embedded in and held by the bottom portion; the spring portion extends upward from the base portion and is accommodated in the terminal accommodation portion to be resiliently deformable; the contact portion is supported by the spring portion and is movable in a predetermined direction perpendicular to the up-down direction; the base portion is enclosed by the bottom portion in a predetermined plane perpendicular to the up-down direction and is in contact with the bottom portion with no gap in the predetermined plane; and when the connector is seen from below, the base portion is partially visible, but the terminal accommodation portion is invisible.