Patent ID: 8172626

Claim:
A three-pin electrical plug with improved terminal structure comprising an earth pin, two terminals, and a plug body holding the earth pin and the two terminals, wherein each of the terminals has a blade portion for being inserted into an external power outlet, a joint portion being adjacent to the blade portion and a wire-gripping portion that is connected to the blade portion through the joint portion and is configured to grip a conductive wire, the three-pin electrical plug being characterized in that each of the terminal comprises: two side edges of the joint portion are continuously extending from two side edges of the blade portion to two side edges of the wire gripping portion without any interrupted portion; a first axis passing through a widthwise a center of the blade portion and extending in a length of the blade portion, the length of the blade portion defined from a mating end to a wire griping end of the pin electrical plugs; a second axis being parallel to the first axis and passing through a most end edge of the joint portion; and a third axis being parallel to both of the first axis and the second axis, and passing through a widthwise center of the wire-gripping portion, wherein the third axis coincides on the second axis or neither on both first axis and second axis.