Patent ID: 7775805

Claim:
An electrical terminal received in an insulative housing, comprising: a main portion; a first contacting portion; a second contacting portion; wherein the first contacting portion comprises a flexible arm and at least one inflexible arm, the flexible arm is flexible along an up-to-down direction, and the inflexible arm hard to flex along the up-to-down direction, the flexible arm defines a flexible contacting portion, and the inflexible arm defines an inflexible contacting portion, the flexible contacting portion is higher than the inflexible contacting portion along the up-to-down direction, the flexible contacting portion and the inflexible contacting portion are both connected to a same corresponding electrical contacting portion; said insulative housing defining a plurality of holes, the main portion of the terminal being fixed in the hole, and the first and second contacting portion extending outward from the insulative housing; wherein the first contacting portion comprises a pair of inflexible arms, and there is a pair of inflexible arms arranged on opposite sides of the flexible arm; wherein the inflexible arms and the flexible arm extend angularly and upwardly at same direction from a same end of the main portion and the second contacting portion extended angularly and downwardly from the other end of the main body; wherein the first contacting portion is used to contact to a CPU, and the second contacting portion is used to connect to a PCB; and wherein when the CPU is assembled to the terminal, the CPU presses the flexible contacting portion of the first contacting portion downwardly along the up-to-down direction, until the CPU engages with the inflexible contacting portion.