Patent ID: 7481685

Claim:
A female terminal fitting, comprising: a tube with a tab insertion opening at one end for receiving a male tab, at least one receiving pad formed in the tube; and a contact piece at least partly in the tube and substantially opposed to the receiving pad, the contact piece including a resiliently deformable contact main body curved in a thickness direction to define a convex surface that approaches the receiving pad, the contact piece being resiliently engageable with a widthwise intermediate part of the male tab at a contact position of the convex surface, and at least one shake preventing portion formed along an inserting direction of the male tab at least at one lateral side of the contact main body and configured to contact widthwise sides of the male tab to prevent the male tab from shaking about a center of axis of the male tab, the shake preventing portion including a hanging portion bent from a lateral edge of a contact main body to extend angularly towards the base plate of the tube, the shake preventing portion further including a shake preventing body bent to bulge out in a transverse direction from an end of the hanging portion so that the shake preventing portion has a substantially L-shape.