Patent ID: 7354295

Claim:
A connector, comprising: a plurality of terminals; and a connector housing, receiving the terminals, each of the terminals, including: a terminal connecting portion, having a tubular shape, and receiving a mating terminal; a wire press-contacting portion, including a press-contacting blade for press-contacting a wire, and the press-contacting blade having a blade width larger than a width of the terminal connecting portion; and an interconnecting portion, connecting the terminal connection portion and the wire press-contacting portion, wherein a press-contacting direction in which the wire is press-contacted with the wire press-contacting portion is parallel to a terminal fitting direction of the mating terminal into an internal space of the terminal connecting portion; wherein the interconnecting portion has a horizontal portion and vertical portion with respect to the terminal fitting direction, the vertical portion extends past the terminal connecting portion in a direction perpendicular to the terminal fitting direction, such that the blade is spaced away from the terminal connecting portion by the horizontal portion and the blade is elevated above the terminal connecting portion in the direction perpendicular to the terminal fitting direction; wherein the terminal connecting portions of the terminals are received in the connector housing in parallel so that the press-contacting blades are arranged in a staggered manner; wherein the interconnecting portion has a press-contact receiving face which abuts against an inner wall of the connector housing so that a press-contacting force acting on the press-contacting blade is received by the inner wall of the connector housing when the wire is press-contacted with the press-contacting blade; and wherein the connector housing has a support jig-inserting portion into which a support jig for receiving the press-contacting force through the inner wall of the connector housing is inserted.