Electrical connector with improved terminals

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 in an upper-lower direction;
• and a plurality of terminals retained in corresponding terminal grooves;
• wherein each terminal comprises two conducting members and each comprises a fixing portion fixed in the terminal groove, an additional portion facing and parallel to the fixing portion, a connecting portion connecting the fixing portion and the additional portion, and an elastic arm with an oblique portion extending from the additional portion and a contacting portion exposed outside the insulating housing, one of the two conducting members of each terminal is inserted into the terminal groove from an upper to lower direction and the other conducting member is inserted into the terminal groove from a lower to upper direction, one of the oblique portions of the two elastic arms of each terminal abuts against an upper edge of a side wall of the terminal groove and the other oblique portion abuts against a lower edge of the side wall of the terminal groove, and the two connecting portions of the two conducting members of each terminal abut against each other along the upper-lower direction.

An electrical connector comprising:

• an insulating housing having an upper face, a lower face, and a plurality of terminal grooves, each terminal groove having a receiving groove penetrating the upper face and the lower face in an upper-lower direction and a fixing slot communicating with the receiving groove;
• and a plurality of terminals retained in corresponding terminal grooves, each terminal comprising two conducting members;
• wherein each conducting member comprises a fixing portion fixed in the fixing slot, an abutting portion extending upward from the fixing portion, an additional portion facing and parallel to the fixing portion, a connecting portion connecting the fixing portion and the additional portion, and an elastic arm with a contacting portion, the connecting portion and the additional portion are received in the receiving groove, the connecting portions of the two conducting members of each terminal abut against each other in the upper-lower direction, and free ends of the two elastic arms of each terminal contact with corresponding abutting portions when the terminal is pressed.