Patent ID: 8251722

Claim:
An electrical connector, comprising: a base having a connection slot for accommodating an electronic element; multiple terminals disposed on the base, each of the terminals having a contact; and one pair of switch terminals disposed on the base and comprising a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein each of the first and second terminals has a fixing portion, a pin portion and an extension, each of the fixing portions of the first and second terminals is fixed to the base, the extensions of the first and second terminals respectively have connection points corresponding to each other, the extension of the first terminal has a pushing portion, the electronic element is inserted, from a front end of the base, into the connection slot to push the pushing portion to make the extension of the first terminal be elastically moved to touch the pair of switch terminals, wherein: the first and second terminals are made of a metal sheet by way of pressing, plate surfaces of the fixing portions of the first and second terminals are arranged in parallel or on the same plane and fixed to the base, and the plate surfaces of the fixing portions of the first and second terminals do not overlap with each other; and one end surface or the other end surface of each of the fixing portions of the first and second terminals connected to the pin portion has a plateless section, and the first and second terminals do not overlap with each other when the plateless sections of first ends of the fixing portions of the first and second terminals are flush with each other and the first and second terminals are developed on the same plane.