Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Kougi Kobayashi

Haruo Saen

In a method of spot-welding flat-type electrical conductors, sandwiched between insulators, to metal terminals, a portion of one insulator layer is removed from an end portion of a flat-type electrical conductor to expose the electrical conductors on one side. The end portion of the electrical conductors is put between two metal plates which is connected to form a metal terminal. A projection is formed on the metal plate which is disposed on the exposed conductor side such that it is in contact with the conductor before the conductor is spot-welded to the metal plates.

Method of spot-welding flat-type electrical wires to metal terminals

A nickel-plated metal terminal to be spot welded has a contact part plated with nickel and a spot welding part to be spot welded to a metal part not plated with nickel thereby improving the weld characteristic of the spot welded terminal.

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Tochigi, Japan

Kougi Kobayashi