Patent ID: 7530828
Filing Date: 2009-05-12
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector comprising: an insulating housing; a contact held by the housing; and an operating member for operating the contact, wherein the housing includes an insertion recess into which a shaft-like terminal is inserted in a first direction, the contact includes a pair of elastic pieces facing each other, at least a part of the pair of elastic pieces is exposed to the insertion recess, each of the elastic pieces is in a cantilevered shape having a base end portion and a tip end portion, the pair of elastic pieces are inclined with respect to the first direction so that a distance between the tip end portions becomes narrower than a distance between the base end portions, the pair of elastic pieces respectively include clamp portions for clamping the terminal in predetermined clamping directions orthogonal to the first direction, the first direction is in a radial direction of the terminal, and the operating member includes a widening operating portion for widening a distance between the clamp portions of the pair of elastic pieces.