Patent ID: 6527601
Filing Date: 2003-03-04
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A female terminal comprisinga tubular body having a bottom wall, side walls provided on both ends of the bottom wall in the width direction to oppose to each other and an upper wall provided on the upper side of the side wall to oppose to the bottom wall, into which a male terminal is inserted through a front opening thereof, a leaf spring being provided inside the body and having a first bent part being integrally provided on the front end of the bottom wall of the body and being bent upward and rearward, an intermediate part extending rearward from the first bent part, a second bent part being bent downward and forward from the rear end of the intermediate part, and a top end part extending forward from the bottom of the second bent part and keeping itself away from the intermediate part, a first fitting means for fitting the front end of the top end part of the leaf spring onto the side walls elevated above the bottom wall, a second fitting means, which allows, when the intermediate part of the leaf spring is displaced downward to contact a contacting part of the top end part of the leaf spring, a supported part ahead of said contacting part of the intermediate part of the leaf spring to be displaced downward by a certain length, and fits the supported part onto the side walls at a bottom dead point of the downward displacement, and a flexible-piece-receiving hole being opened in the bottom wall ahead of a part at which the second bent part or the rear end of the top end part of the leaf spring being displaced downward contacts the bottom wall.