Patent ID: 7896686

Claim:
Electrical connection clamp or terminal clamp for connecting an electrical conductor, comprising: a clamp spring, the clamp spring having a clamp leg and a contact leg, a recess being formed in the clamp leg for insertion of the electrical conductor to which a connection is to be made, and a metal part having a contact leg, an opposite retaining leg and a bridge which connects the legs, wherein the clamp leg and the contact leg of the clamp spring have been bent relative to one another such that an end of the clamp leg extends through the recess, wherein a retaining section has been punched out of the contact leg on an end of the recess which is away from said end of the clamp leg and has been bent in an insertion direction of the electrical conductor which is to be connected, wherein an end of the clamp leg of the clamp spring and the contact leg of the metal part forming a spring force terminal connection for the electrical conductor to be connected wherein the ends of each of the legs of the clamp spring has an attachment section and the attachment section of the contact leg extends through said recess in a direction opposite the insertion direction of the electrical conductor to be connected, wherein the attachment section of the retaining leg adjoins an outer side of the retaining section of the contact leg, the outer side facing away from the recess.