US 12,451,635 B2
Electrical female terminal
Ping Chen, Novi, MI (US); Gwendolyn Upson, Ypsilanti, MI (US); and Craig Lee, Farmington Hills, MI (US)
Assigned to J.S.T. CORPORATION, Farmington Hills, MI (US)
Filed by J.S.T. CORPORATION, Farmington Hills, MI (US)
Filed on Aug. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/401,869.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/209,796, filed on Jun. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0399666 A1, Dec. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/05 (2006.01); H01R 13/187 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/055 (2013.01) [H01R 13/187 (2013.01)] 32 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical female terminal for insertion into a connector assembly, said electrical female terminal, comprising:
a wire fastening portion;
a main body attached to said wire fastening portion,
wherein said main body includes a spring member and a lever member,
wherein an unattached end portion of said lever member has a protrusion that deflects said lever member when said protrusion interacts with an internal protrusion of said connector assembly to prevent said electrical female terminal from falling out during use, said lever member being a substantially uniform beam having a beam cross-section that is substantially U-shaped and providing elasticity for latching and retention with a housing of said connector assembly, and
wherein said electrical female terminal is integrally formed as a continuous piece, being folded, creased, or curved, to form a single construct,
wherein the spring member has a lower spring member and an upper spring member, the upper spring member being above the lower spring member, and the lower spring member having a substantially curved portion that curves to an apex; and
a retainer member having a contact beneath said retainer member with said upper member of said spring member, and
wherein said retainer member has a top retainer member, and
wherein said retainer member has another contact with said upper member of said spring member at a corresponding extended lower portion of said top retainer member of said retainer member.