DE2243471

A female electrical terminal for receiving a blade terminal is disclosed. The main elements forming the female terminal are first, second, third and fourth walls which are joined together into an integral unit at edges between the first and the second, the second and the third, and the third and the fourth walls. A cooperable lock device is formed, in part, on a free end of the first wall and, in part, on a free end of the fourth wall. The cooperable lock device locks the walls into a closed configuration to define therein an interior volume in which the first and the third walls are in facing relationship and the second and the fourth walls are in a facing relationship. Individual ones of a pair of terminal elements are formed integrally from respective ones of a pair of facing walls. Each of the terminal elements is folded back from its point of attachment to the wall into the interior volume of the terminal to form a main blade terminal contacting portion which is resiliently deflectable when engaged by an inserted blade terminal.