US 11,955,756 B2
Electric terminal having secondary latching device
Daniel Leiminger, Woert (DE); Jochen Brandt, Woert (DE); Andreas Oettle, Woert (DE); Stefan Raab, Woert (DE); Ulrich Lechler, Woert (DE); Marina Hertlein, Woert (DE); Florian Staufinger, Woert (DE); Jiri Konrad, Woert (DE); Andreas Merkle, Woert (DE); and Julia Stegmeier (nee Kirschbaum), Woert (DE)
Assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed by TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed on Oct. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/500,285.
Claims priority of application No. 102020126888.2 (DE), filed on Oct. 13, 2020; and application No. 102021117168.7 (DE), filed on Jul. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0115791 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 4/48 (2006.01); H01R 4/18 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 4/48 (2013.01) [H01R 4/18 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric terminal, comprising:
a contact section having a locking lance locking the electric terminal in a connector housing of an electric connector; and
a transition section extending from the contact section and having a secondary latching with a secondary latching device latching the electric terminal in the connector housing, a downwardly extending free end edge of a side wall of the locking lance is axially additionally secured by a mechanical axial locking to a wall of a socket of the contact section away from an attachment of the locking lance to the contact section, the secondary latching device has a pair of circumferential sections bent toward one another in a circumferential direction of the electric terminal, end portions of the circumferential sections bent toward one another are connected by a mechanical circumferential connection.