Terminal fitting

A terminal fitting comprising:

• a body portion having substantially square tube shape rod and having an inserting space for inserting a tab of a mating terminal therein;
• an elastic contact piece provided to face the inserting space, having a configuration as to be extended like a cantilever in a direction of an insertion and pull-out of the tab with respect to the inserting space through a wall-shaped portion constituting the body portion, and having a contact portion to come in contact with the tab;
• and
• an elastic reinforcing piece provided on an opposite side to the inserting space with the elastic contact piece interposed therebetween, having a configuration as to be extended like a cantilever in the direction of the insertion and pull-out of the tab from the wall-shaped portion constituting the body portion, and causing an extended end to correspond to a displaced region in an elastic flexure in the elastic contact piece, wherein:
• the elastic contact piece is elastically flexed through an abutment of the tab on the contact portion and the elastic reinforcing piece is elastically flexed through an abutment of the elastic contact piece flexed elastically in a state in which the tab is inserted in the inserting space;
• an extended end of the elastic contact piece is provided in a non-corresponding position to the elastic reinforcing piece in the direction of the insertion and pull-out of the tab;
• and
• the extended end of the elastic contact piece abuts on the wall-shaped portion constituting the body portion in a state in which the contact portion abuts on the tab.