Patent ID: 8105105

Claim:
An electrical connector, comprising: a housing; and a terminal disposed in the housing, said terminal including a pressing portion for receiving a wire and a connecting portion extending from the pressing portion, said pressing portion including two elastic arm portions and a pressing groove portion between the elastic arm portions, each of said elastic arm portions including a base portion extending from the connecting portion, a first arm portion extending from the base portion toward an opening portion of the pressing groove portion, a transition portion in a curved shape at a distal end portion of the first arm portion, and a second arm portion extending toward the base portion in parallel to the first arm portion so that the elastic arm portions contact with the wire at inner edge portions of the second arm portions when the wire is inserted into the pressing groove portion, wherein each of said second arm portions includes a pressing protrusion portion on the inner edge portion so that the pressing protrusion portions are situated away from each other by a distance smaller than that between the inner edge portions when the wire is inserted into the pressing groove portion.