Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Autonetworks Technologies, Limited

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideki Matsunaga

Masaaki Tabata

Teruo Hara

Shunya Takeuchi

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Keisuke Teramoto

Tomoyuki Sakata

Tetsuya Aihara

Takeshi Amakawa

Yasushi Saito

Toshifumi Ichio

Yasuo Omori

Hiroyoshi Maesoba

Shigekazu Wakata

Hajime Matsui

Hiroshi Nakano

Kenji Okamura

Eiji Kojima

Takamaru Amano

Takeshi Misaiji

Takahito Jo

Hajime Kawase

Tetsuya Miyamura

Nori Inoue

Yoshihiro Mizutani

Masahide Hio

Eiji Saijo

Masanori Wakui

Kazuyuki Shiraki

Takatoshi Katsuma

Keigo Atsumi

Satoshi Morikawa

Mitsugu Furutani

Hiroyuki Hiramatsu

Kazuhiro Aoki

Takao Hata

Kazumasa Kobayashi

Keiichi Itou

Kenji Inoue

Nungna Wi

Masao Shibata

Kenichiro Akizuki

Kiyotaka Kawase

Takahiko Kamiya

Toshiya Mori

A terminal coupled to an end of an electric wire on a front side with respect to an extending direction in which the electric wire extends. The terminal includes a terminal body including a holding section holding the electric wire and a slider slidable relative to the terminal body in the extending direction. The slider includes a pressing portion that presses the holding section toward the electric wire. The terminal body is formed from a folded metal sheet. The holding section includes a holding protrusion that protrudes toward the electric wire and contacts the electric wire. The holding protrusion is formed from a folded metal sheet.

Terminal and terminal wire assembly

A terminal-equipped wire is provided with a wire including a conductor, a terminal to be connected to the conductor, and a shell to be mounted on the terminal. The terminal includes a grip portion for sandwiching the conductor. The shell includes a pressing portion for pressing at least a part of the grip portion toward the conductor. The grip portion has a Sn—Ni alloy layer. The Sn—Ni alloy layer includes locally projecting protrusions. The protrusions bite into the conductor.

Terminal-equipped wire

A terminal-equipped electric wire includes an electric wire that includes a conductor, a terminal connected to the conductor, and a shell attached to the terminal. The terminal includes a grip portion that pinches the conductor. The shell includes a pressing portion that presses at least a portion of the grip portion toward the conductor. The grip portion and the conductor are joined with an alloy layer. The alloy layer contains a Cu&#x2014;Sn alloy.

Terminal-equipped electric wire

A terminal-equipped electric wire includes an electric wire that includes a conductor, a terminal connected to the conductor, and a shell attached to the terminal. The conductor has a nominal cross-sectional area of 0.13 mmor less. The terminal includes a grip portion that pinches the conductor. The shell includes a pressing portion that presses at least a portion of the grip portion toward the conductor. At least one of the conductor and the grip portion includes a tin layer, and an oxide coating formed on the surface of the tin layer. An adhering portion formed of a portion of tin contained in the tin layer that passes through the oxide coating and pours out onto a surface of the oxide coating. The adhering portion has an area of 0.100 mmor more.

A male terminalto be accommodated into a cavityof a housingincludes a plate-like tabformed in a front end part, and a box portionin the form of a rectangular tube connected to a rear part of the taband open rearward. A first projectionprojecting in a thickness direction of the tabis formed on one plate surface of the tab, and press-fit to an inner wall of the cavityof the housingfrom behind.

Male connector provided with housing that accomodates male terminal

An electric cable including a terminal includes an electric wire and a female terminal. The female terminal includes a first holding portion and a second holding portion that hold the electric wire. The female terminal includes a first pressing portion and the second pressing portion pressing the first holding portion and the second holding portion toward the electric wire. The first holding portion and the second holding portion include a first protrusion and a second protrusion, respectively. The first protrusion and the second protrusion protrude toward the electric wire. A core wire of the electric wire includes a recess in which the first protrusion and the second protrusion are fitted.

Electrical cable including terminal having pressing portion that presses holding portion

A female terminalis a female terminal including a terminal bodyincluding a deformable upper connection pieceA and a deformable lower connection pieceB, the upper and lower connection piecesA andB having contact surfacesA andB that come in contact with a coreof a wire, respectively, and extending in an extension direction, and a slideconfigured to move along the extension direction. The slidehas an upper contact portionA and a lower contact portionB that press the upper connection pieceA and the lower connection pieceB, respectively, to the corewhile the coreis disposed in contact with the contact surfacesA andB of the upper and lower connection piecesA andB along the extension direction.

Terminal and connector

A wire connection sleeve includes a pipe-like outer tube () and an inner tube () inserted inside this outer tube (). The inner tube () is formed by winding a sheet-like metal material (P) formed with projections or recesses into a tubular shape with both ends being open, and a longitudinal middle part of this inner tube () serves as an inner-tube small-diameter portion () which is so squashed or deformed that the opening size thereof is smaller than those of the opposite longitudinal ends.

Wire connection sleeve, a wire connection sleeve producing method, a repair wire pre-connected with a wire connection sleeve by crimping and a wire connecting method

A wire with a terminal fitting () formed by crimping and cutting a terminal fitting with a carrier in which a terminal fitting () projecting forward is coupled to a carrier (C). The wire with the terminal fitting () is provided with a crimping portion () to be crimped into connection with an end portion of an insulated wireformed by covering a core () with a coating (), a link () coupling the crimping portion () and the carrier (C), and an escaping portion () formed by partly cutting off a rear end part of the crimping portion () and enabling a cutting mold () for cutting the link portion () to be arranged at a position where a front end (A) of the cutting mold () is located before the rear end of the crimping portion ().

Terminal fitting, a terminal fitting chain, a wire with a terminal fitting and a processing device therefor

A male housing () has a tubular part () with inner and outer tubes () separated by a groove (). A female housing () has a fit-in portion () to be fit in the inner tube (). A seal ring () is mounted on the fit-in portion () and is compressed between opposed surfaces of the fit-in portion () and the outer tube (). Loosening prevention portions () on the fit-in portion () fill a gap between the opposed surfaces of the fit-in portion () and the inner tube () and prevent both housings () from being radially loosened.

Connector

A battery positive cover () is provided for a battery terminal and a wire harness. The battery positive cover () has inclined portions () that can be pressed from an outer side of a sectionally U-shaped wire harness-mounting part () toward the inner side thereof. The inclined portions () project from opposed facing tips at an entry (B) of the wire harness-mounting part () and incline towards the inner side of the wire harness-mounting part (). A wall (C,D) of the wire harness-mounting part () can be elastically deformed from a holding position to an open position.

Battery positive cover

Upon fitting a female housing () into a receptacle () of a male housing (), metallic lock portions () are hidden behind receiving portions () when viewed from the front side of the receptacle () at an initial stage. When the lock portions () move over the receiving portions () while being resiliently deformed as this fitting operation progresses, the lock portions () are engaged with the receiving portions () and can be visually confirmed from the front side of the receptacle (). Thus, the properly connected state of the two housings () can be detected by visually confirming the lock portions () from the front side of the receptacle ().

A female housing () is provided with a lock arm () for holding a mating male connector (M) in a connected state. The lock arm () is comprised of an arm () extending along forward and backward directions and an actuator () extending along a width direction. The arm () is resiliently deformed with a support () as a supporting point and has a lock () engageable with the male connector (M). The arm () is displaced in unlocking direction by pressing the actuator (). Two couplings () coupled to the female housing () are provided at opposite sides of the actuator (). The couplings () are inclined up towards a widthwise middle () of the actuator ().

A female housing () made of a synthetic resin is formed with cavities () for accommodating female terminal fittings (), and locks () engageable with the female terminal fittings () to retain them are provided in the cavities (). Each lock () projects from an outer surface () of the female housing () during resilient deformation. A lock arm () for holding a mating male connector (M) in a connected state is mounted on the female housing (). The lock arm () is made of metal and includes a press-in portion () that can be pressed into press-in grooves () of the female housing (). The lock arm () is arranged to face the locks () and can be retracted into deformation spaces () for the locks () during the resilient deformation.

A battery (B) includes electrodes ( ) and engaging portions ( ) formed by recessing portions of the battery (B) around the electrodes ( ), and recesses ( ) are formed in side surfaces of the engaging portions ( ). The recesses ( ) are symmetrically arranged in the left and right engaging portions ( ). Transversely symmetrical identification pieces ( ) project from the leading ends of terminals ( ). In the case of a correct correspondence of the electrodes ( ) and the terminals ( ), the identification pieces ( ) fit into the recesses ( ), enabling assembling of the terminals ( ) with the electrodes ( ). In the case of an incorrect correspondence, the identification pieces ( ) cannot be fitted into the recesses ( ) and interfere with the upper surface of the battery (B), making assembling impossible.

Construction for preventing erroneous assembling of battery terminals, a battery and a set of terminals

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Yokkaichi, Japan

Hideki Matsunaga