Patent ID: 8568176

Claim:
A terminal module used in an electric female connector, comprising a circuit board, a set of piercing terminals installed in one side of said circuit board and extending at an angle about 180 degrees relative to the insertion direction of a matching electric male connector connectable to said electric female connector, and a set of transmission terminals numbered 1 st through 8 th and installed in an opposite side of said circuit board, each said transmission terminal comprising a bonding portion disposed at one end thereof and a contact portion disposed at an opposite end thereof, said circuit board comprising a plurality of mounting holes bilaterally and symmetrically arranged in two rows, and a plurality of locating holes arranged in two rows at different elevations between the two rows of mounting holes in a staggered manner, said piercing terminals being respectively bonded to the mounting holes of said circuit board, the bonding portions of the 1 st , 3 rd , 5 th and 7 th transmission terminals being respectively bonded to the upper row of locating holes of said circuit board, the 2 nd , 4 th , 6 th and 8 th transmission terminals being respectively bonded to the lower row of locating holes of said circuit board, wherein: said first transmission terminal further comprises a triangle support portion connected between the bonding portion and contact portion thereof, said triangle support portion comprising a downward bent downwardly extended from an inner end of the bonding portion, an upward bent having a lower end thereof connected to one end of said downward bent opposite to the bonding portion and an upper end thereof connected to the contact portion; said eighth transmission terminal further comprises a support portion connected between the bonding portion contact portion thereof, said support portion extending obliquely upwardly from an inner end of the bonding portion and terminating in an upper end that is connected to the contact portion.