| 摘要 |
A flexible-piece-receiving hole is opened in the bottom wall while ensuring an adequate contact force is obtained between the leaf spring and a male terminal and preventing the leaf spring from excessive deformation, and in turn, the workability of operation of disengaging the flexible piece from the female terminal is enhanced. A female terminal comprising a tubular body (10), a leaf spring (20) being provided inside the body (10) and having a first bent part (21) being bent upward and rearward from the front end of the bottom wall (11) of the body (10), an intermediate part (22) extending rearward from the first bent part (21), a second bent part (23) being bent downward and forward from the rear end of the intermediate part (22), and a top end part (24) extending forward from the second bent part (23) and keeping itself away from the intermediate part (22), a first fitting means (30) for fitting the front end of the top end part (24) of the leaf spring (20) onto the side walls (12),(13), a second fitting means (40), which allows, when the intermediate part (22) of the leaf spring (20) is displaced downward to contact the top end part (24) of the leaf spring (20), a part (22b) ahead of said contacting part (22a) of the intermediate part (22) of the leaf spring (20) to be displaced downward by a certain length, and fits the part onto the side walls (12),(13) at the bottom dead point, and a flexible-piece-receiving hole (50) being opened in the bottom wall (11) ahead of a part at which the second bent part (23) or the rear end of the top end part (24) of the leaf spring (20) being displaced downward contacts the bottom wall (11). <IMAGE> |
