Female electrical contact terminal for a connector

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A female electrical contact terminal having a rear tubular shank for connection with an electrical conductor a forwardly open electrically conductive annular portion for receiving a male terminal, subdivided by a plurality of circumferentially distributed axial slots into a plurality of fingers, each said finger extending axially from a root securely connected to said rear tubular shank up to a free end having an inner swelling, the swelling of all arms defining a male terminal entrance, and a rigid tubular section secured to the roots of the fingers surrounding the, fingers, and limiting radially outwards resilient deformation of the fingers from a free condition of the fingers in which …