Patent ID: 7387549

Claim:
A female terminal in a socket connector, which is formed in one-piece construction from a metal sheet and comprises a contact portion and an attachment portion distant from the contact portion, wherein the attachment portion is set to attach to a wire core, while the contact portion is set to permit a pin to plug in and contact conductively, and a neck with a smaller diameter is provided between the contact portion and the attachment portion, wherein, the contact portion comprises an outer barrel and an inner tube, wherein the outer barrel has one end connected with the neck directly and has the opposite end connected with the inner tube via a folded part, and the inner tube is shorter than the outer barrel in order to be accommodated in the outer barrel, wherein the inner tube has a plurality of spring elements extending axially, each having a biasing section toward the inner tube axis near the plug-in entrance for the matching contact pin, in which each said spring element has the end connected to the inner tube and has the opposite end separated from the inner wall of the inner tube with a slit.