Connecting terminal and method of mounting the same onto a circuit board

Abstract

A connecting terminal for allowing a circuit board to come into compression contact with a flat conductor with certainty, particularly to a connecting terminal having a contact part which is not irregularly deformed even if the contact part comes into compression contact with the flat conductor oblique or in the lateral direction and which maintains an optimum contact pressure. The connecting terminal is made of a substantially strip conductive plate and comprises a fixed part provided at one end of the conductive plate to be mounted onto a circuit board, and a contact part extended from the fixed part and formed by bending the conductive plate toward the fixed part to form a curved part, wherein the contact part is elastically deformed about the curved part to come into compression contact with the substantially flat conductor, and the connecting terminal further comprises a pair of side wall parts formed by bending the conductive plate 11 at the fixed part in a width direction thereof, wherein the side wall parts have a height to an extent to restrict excessive deformation of the contact part when the contact part comes into compression contact with the flat conductor. Further, an interval between the pair of side wall parts is made larger than a width of the contact part, and both end sides of the contact part contact or approach inner surfaces of the side wall parts.

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