US 7,658,654 B2Granted

Female terminal fitting

AssigneeYazaki Corporation

InventorsKouichi Ohyama, Shinobu Suzuki, Masakuni Samejima

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Abstract

A female terminal fitting includes a bottom plate which extends in a front-back direction, a female electrical contact portion formed on a front side of the bottom plate, a board connecting portion extending backward of the bottom plate, and a stress relaxation portion. The bottom plate has a first stress relaxation portion which is resiliently deformable in an up-down direction. A side wall is erected from and formed on at least one side portion of the bottom plate in a right-left direction. A connecting portion connects to the board connecting portion in a state that the board connecting portion is arranged so as to be parallel to the front-back direction and is located more inside than the side wall. The connecting portion is a second stress relaxation portion which is resiliently deformable in the right-left direction and in the front-back direction.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A female terminal fitting, comprising:

a bottom plate formed in a flat shape and which extends in a front-back direction and a right-left direction;
a female electrical contact portion formed on a front side of the bottom plate for contacting a mating male terminal fitting;
and
a board connecting portion extending from the back of the bottom plate for connecting to a circuit board;
wherein the bottom plate has a first stress relaxation portion formed between the electrical contact portion and the board connecting portion, wherein the first stress relaxation portion is resiliently deformable in an up-down direction, said up-down direction being perpendicular to the front-back direction and the right-left direction;
wherein a side wall is erected from and formed on at least one side portion of the bottom plate, wherein the side wall is substantially perpendicular to the bottom plate and extends along the front-back direction;
wherein a belt-like connecting portion is formed between the side wall and the board connecting portion;
and
wherein the belt-like connecting portion is a second stress relaxation portion which is resiliently deformable in the right-left direction and in the front-back direction.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/272,459Filed 17 Nov 2008
Priority: JP 2007-3142475 Dec 2007
Published: US 2009/0149087 A111 Jun 2009
Granted: 9 Feb 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H01R 13/114
Resilient sockets: co-operating with pins or blades having a square transverse section
H01R 4/02
Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or…:…
H01R 13/187
Pins, blades or sockets having separate spring member for producing or increasing contact pressure: with spring member in the socket
H01R 43/0249
For soldered or welded connections: for simultaneous welding or soldering of a plurality of wires to contact elements