Patent ID: 6997729

Claim:
An electrical connector for a flat cable, comprising: a plurality of metal terminals arranged in a housing such that plate surfaces thereof are parallel to each other, each of said metal terminals including an upper arm portion, a middle arm portion, and a lower arm portion each extending in a substantially same direction; a cam portion of a pressing portion member supported and guided between the upper arm portion and the middle arm portion capable of elastically deforming in a plate surface so that the pressing portion member is movable between an open position and a closed position; and an insertion space between the middle arm portion and the lower arm portion for receiving the flat cable; wherein at least one of the middle arm portion and the lower arm portion has a contact portion at an inner edge portion thereof for contacting with a circuit portion of the flat cable; when the pressing portion member is located at the open position, the flat cable is being inserted into the insertion space; and when the pressing portion member is located at the closed position, the pressing portion member pushes the middle arm portion to deform in the plate surface of the terminal so that the flat cable is pressed and contacted with the contact portion; wherein said lower arm portion is provided with a held portion held with the housing at a base portion thereof; a flexible portion is provided at a base portion of the upper arm portion extending upwardly from the base portion of the lower arm portion; and when the pressing portion member moves to the closed position, the middle arm portion and the upper arm portion have elasticity to degenerate integral deformation around the flexible portion as well as deformation in a separating direction from each other relatively.