Flat conductor electric connector

A flat conductor electric connector configured such that a flat conductor extending in a front-back direction is inserted and connected forward to the flat conductor electric connector, comprising:

• a plurality of terminals arrayed in a flat conductor width direction which is a terminal alignment direction;
• and
• a housing holding the plurality of terminals,
• wherein each terminal includes an attachment portion attached, on a front side in the front-back direction, in a fixed manner to the housing, a contact arm portion extending in the front-back direction and contacting a circuit portion of the flat conductor on a back side in the front-back direction, and an elastically-displaceable elastic portion provided between the attachment portion and the contact arm portion in the front-back direction,
• the elastic portion is elastically displaceable at least in one of the front-back direction, the terminal alignment direction, or an upper-lower direction which is a flat conductor thickness direction,
• the contact arm portion is elastically displaceable at least in the upper-lower direction, and when the elastic portion is elastically displaced, is displaceable together with the elastic portion, and
• the elastic portion includes a front leg portion positioned on the front side and extending in the upper-lower direction, a back leg portion positioned on the back side and extending in the upper-lower direction, and a bent portion bent downward in the upper-lower direction and coupling upper end portions of the front leg portion and the back leg portion to each other.