Patent ID: 8235733

Claim:
An electrical connector to be attached to a circuit board, comprising: a terminal having a contact section on one free end side to contact with a terminal of a mating connector and a connecting section on the other free end side to be connected by soldering to a circuit portion of the circuit board, said terminal having a holding section to be held by contacting to a wall section of a housing orthogonal to a surface of a circuit board in a middle part of the terminal, said terminal having a connecting section formed by bending a lower end of the holding section and extending along a circuit board surface, said holding section having a face-contact section that contacts by face with the wall section, a backside section on the other side to the face-contact section, and a side-face section connecting between the face-contact section and the backside section, said terminal having a low solder wetting area at least on a part of a circumferential area of the holding section in a longitudinal direction except the contact section and the connecting section, said contact section being formed above an upper end of the low solder wetting area on the backside section, said upper end of the low solder wetting area on the backside section being provided below the upper end at the side-face section and the contact-face section.