Patent ID: 7094115
Filing Date: 2006-08-22
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A female terminal fitting having opposite front and rear ends, a substantially rectangular tubular connection portion being formed at the front end of the terminal fitting and having a ceiling plate, a bottom plate and opposed first and second side plates extending between the ceiling plate and the bottom plate, an elastic contact piece extending from ceiling plate and disposed in the tubular connection portion in opposed spaced relationship to the bottom plate, the elastic contact piece having a selected width, the tubular connection portion having an open front end for receiving a tab of a male terminal fitting along a tab-receiving direction of the connection portion and between the elastic contact piece and the bottom plate, the connection portion having opposite inner and outer surfaces, areas of said first and second side plates being thinned to define first and second concavities on said inner surface of said connection portion, each said concavity having an open front end at the front end of the connection portion and extending substantially parallel to the tab-receiving direction, portions of the side plates spaced from the concavities defining a width that exceeds the width of the elastic contact piece.