A connector, a terminal fitting and a method for inserting a terminal fitting

摘要

To provide a connector suited to being miniaturized. <??>When a female terminal fitting 30 is inserted into a cavity 11 of a female housing 10, a locking portion 13 provided in the cavity 11 is restored after being resiliently deformed in a direction intersecting with inserting and withdrawing directions of the female terminal fitting 30, thereby resiliently locking the female terminal fitting 30. The female housing 10 is molded by a pair of front and rear molds which are closed and opened along the inserting and withdrawing directions of the female terminal fitting 30. The female terminal fitting 30 is formed with a fittable groove 53 which is open forward. A supporting projection 26 for engaging and supporting the fittable groove 53 to prevent the inclination of the female terminal fitting 30 in the deforming direction of the locking portion 13 is provided at a front end position of the inner surface of the cavity 11 displaced from the locking portion 13 in its deforming direction. <IMAGE>