Patent ID: 7780460

Claim:
Connecting terminal with an insulating connecting terminal housing and a clamping contact positioned in the connecting terminal housing for the attachment of an electrical conductor, wherein a contact spring, which is connected in electrically conductive fashion to the clamping contact within the connecting terminal housing, is led through an initial hole in the connecting terminal housing to the outside of said housing, and the contact spring is designed so that it presses against a contact area on a circuit board when the connecting terminal is placed on said circuit board, to thereby produce an electrical contact between the circuit board and the clamping contact; and wherein the clamping contact has an integrated actuating element for releasing the clamping contact, such that said actuating element is accessible through, or is guided through, a second hole in the connecting terminal housing, wherein at least one connecting component, specifically at least one snap-in element, is positioned on the connecting terminal housing, to permit the connecting terminal to be mounted on the circuit board and/or to be mounted in a housing.