Patent attributes
A connector terminal includes a contact portion to be contacted with a counter connector terminal, a hold portion held in a connector housing, and a coupling portion coupling the contact portion and the hold portion, the coupling portion being configured as a rectangular tube with four bending portions and having a single continuous band portion from the contact portion to the hold portion by having notches staggered from the contact portion toward the hold portion, each of the notches including an oblique part that extends to cross over adjacent two of the four bending portions, the oblique part of an odd numbered notch being slanted in a direction from the contact portion toward the hold portion as approaching a tip from an entrance thereof, an even numbered notch being slanted in a direction from the hold portion toward the contact portion as approaching a tip from an entrance thereof.
