Patent ID: 9160105
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A connector comprising a housing and a plurality of terminals held in the housing at intervals in a width direction of the connector, the connector being electrically connected to a companion connector as a result of the terminals respectively coming into contact with companion terminals of the companion connector, wherein each of the terminals includes wherein the front terminal portion includes a front elastic arm and a front contact portion at an end of the front elastic arm, the front contact portion having a front contact point that comes into contact with the companion terminal, wherein the rear terminal portion includes a rear elastic arm and a rear contact portion at an end of the rear elastic arm, the rear contact portion having a rear contact point that comes into contact with the companion terminal, wherein the front terminal portion and the rear terminal portion are made of a flat metal plate including no curvature in a thickness direction and the front elastic arm and the rear elastic arm are continuous with the base end portion at different portions of the base end portion and elastically deformed independently of each other, wherein the front contact point and the rear contact point are each positioned on an edge surface taken in a plate-thickness direction of the metal plate, and wherein a rear insertion angle formed by a rear-contact leading-side edge, extending from an upper end of the rear contact portion to the rear contact point when the companion terminal comes into contact with the front terminal portion, and an imaginary line extending in a direction in which the connector is inserted or removed is smaller than a front insertion angle formed by a front-contact leading-side edge, extending from an upper end of the front contact portion to the front contact point before the companion terminal comes into contact with the front terminal portion, and an imaginary line extending in the direction in which the connector is inserted or removed.