Patent ID: 7175487

Claim:
An electrical terminal element having a socket section which forms a receiving chamber for receiving a plug and which has a substantially rectangular cross-section comprising opposed first side walls and opposed second side walls, wherein each of the opposed first side walls of the socket section has a locking projection which is not deformable, each of the locking projections being located in a front region of an insertion opening of the receiving chamber for the plug and wherein the opposed second side walls of the socket section each have a longitudinal opening starting from the insertion opening and extending in a direction of insertion of the socket section into a receiving chamber of a terminal element housing, wherein the longitudinal openings extend centrally alone a longitudinal axis of the respective opposed second side walls and provide socket section parts that are compressible toward each other, and wherein one of the locking projections is provided on each of the socket section parts that are compressible toward each other.