Terminal fitting

摘要

An object of the present invention is to reliably protect a turned portion of a resilient contact piece. A terminal connecting portion 11 in the form of a rectangular tube includes a pair of side plate portions 17 standing up substantially at right angles from the opposite lateral edges of a base plate portion 15 via substantially quarter-circular curved portions 16. A resilient contact piece 20 includes a substantially arcuate turned portion 21 extending forward from a front end edge 15F of the base plate portion 15 and a main portion 22 extending backward from the extending end of the turned portion 21. A front end portion of the terminal connecting portion 11 is formed with first slits 24 extending backward from a front end edge 11 F of the terminal connecting portion 11 along lateral edges 21 S of the turned portion 21, second slits 25 extending from the rear ends of the first slits 24 along the front end edges 15F, 16F of the base plate portion 15 and the curved portions 16, and protecting plate portions 26 defined by the first and second slits 24, 25 and extending in a cantilever manner toward the turned portion 21.