Patent ID: 7419411

Claim:
An exposed-spring female terminal 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 arranged with the body on a rear side in the depth direction, being provided integrally with the body and being structured to connect to a conductor such as electric wire; and a leaf spring being arranged inside the body, with the plate width direction being substantially aligned with the width direction, and having a restrained part restrained by the body and a resilient deformation part extending from the restrained part in the depth direction when seen in the height direction and being capable of resilient deformation in the height direction; and the leaf spring being provided with a wider-width part extending from the restrained part to the resilient deformation part, of which plate width being larger than the dimension between the inner faces of the two vertical walls; and the two vertical walls being provided with openings for receiving the wider-width part, wherein at least one opening is formed by cutting away a portion of the vertical wall and a portion of an adjoining lateral wall corresponding to the cut-away portion of the vertical wall such that at least one lateral edge portion of the wider-width part is exposed exteriorly of the tubular body and overlaps a remaining portion of the cut-away vertical wall as viewed in plan view.