Patent ID: 7485016

Claim:
A female terminal with guiding piece, comprising: a tubular body having two lateral walls facing in a height direction and opposing to each other and two vertical walls facing in a width direction perpendicular to the height direction and opposing to each other, and extending in a depth direction perpendicular to both the height direction and the width direction; a connecting part being aligned with the body on a rear side in the depth direction and integrally connected with the tubular body; two opposing spring pieces, each spring piece having a fixed end and a free end disposed opposite the fixed end and integrally connected to each other to form a generally V-shaped configuration as viewed in cross-section; and a pair of opposing guiding pieces, wherein each vertical wall is a single panel wall having a rectangularly-shaped cutout formed therethrough, the cutout is defined between a front side wall edge and a rear side wall edge, both the front side wall edge and the rear side wall edge extending in the height direction and between opposing disposed-apart side wall edges extending in the depth direction between the front side wall edge and rear side wall edge, a respective one of the spring pieces being integrally connected to a respective one of the rear side wall edges at the fixed end with the fixed end and the free end extending into the tubular body such that the two opposing spring pieces define an hour-glass shaped passageway disposed internally of the tubular body as viewed in cross-section; and each vertical wall having one of the pair of opposing guiding pieces at the front end in the depth direction thereof, said guiding pieces being plate pieces bent inward from the vertical walls into the tubular body to define a generally V-shaped passageway tapering inwardly into the tubular body between the pair of opposing guide pieces, the hour-glass shaped passageway being disposed rearwardly of the generally V-shaped passageway as viewed in the depth direction.