Electrical connector with an improved terminal

An electrical connector comprising:

• an insulating housing having an upper face, a lower face, and a plurality of terminal grooves penetrating the upper face and the lower face;
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• a plurality of terminals retained in corresponding terminal grooves, each of the terminals comprising a main portion, an upper elastic arm extending from the main portion upward, and a lower elastic arm extending from the main portion downward, the upper elastic arm having an upper contacting portion and an upper abutting portion, the lower elastic arm having a lower contacting portion and a lower abutting portion;
• wherein the main portion has an upper supporting portion and a lower supporting portion, both the upper supporting portion and the lower supporting portion bend from a vertical plate of the main portion first and then extend horizontally along a left-right direction perpendicular to the vertical plate, and the upper abutting portion contacts with an upper face of the upper supporting portion and the lower abutting portion contact with a lower face of the lower supporting portion when the upper elastic arm and the lower elastic arm are pressed.

An electrical connector comprising:

• an insulating housing having an upper face, a lower face, and a plurality of terminal grooves penetrating the upper face and the lower face;
• and
• a plurality of terminals retained in corresponding terminal grooves;
• wherein each of the terminals is stamped from an integral metal plate and comprises a main portion, an upper elastic portion, an upper contacting portion and an upper abutting portion extending upward sequentially from the main portion, a lower elastic portion, a lower contacting portion, and a lower abutting portion extending downward sequentially from the main portion, the upper abutting portion extends downward from the upper contacting portion and the lower abutting portion extends upward from the lower contacting portion, the main portion has an upper supporting portion and a lower supporting potion, the upper abutting portion has an upper spoon-shaped contacting portion at a free end thereof, the lower abutting portion has a lower spoon-shaped contacting portion at a free end thereof, and the upper spoon-shaped contacting portion is directly over the upper supporting portion and the lower spoon-shaped contacting portion is directly below the lower supporting portion.