Patent ID: 7950972

Claim:
An electrical female terminal, comprising: a female terminal body extending along and about a longitudinal axis and having a top wall, an opposite bottom wall and a pair of opposing side walls connected to each other to form a generally box-shaped passageway extending therethrough; and a spring assembly having a beam portion, an interconnect portion and a contact portion, the beam portion having a first beam portion section and a second beam portion section, the first beam portion section connected to one of the side walls and extending at an angle therefrom into the passageway, the second beam section portion connected to the first beam section portion and extending generally parallel to the one of the side walls, the interconnect portion connected generally perpendicularly to the second beam portion section and interconnecting the second beam portion section and the contact portion and the contact portion connected to the interconnect portion and projecting forwardly therefrom in a cantilevered manner.