Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Autonetworks Technologies, Limited

Takeshi Masuda

Tomoyuki Sakata

Kazuo Nakai

Keiichi Nakamura

Youjirou Hashimoto

Takahiko Saitou

Hiromu Otani

Hiromu Ootani

Takehide Terasawa

Takehide Teresawa

A terminal includes a connecting portion to be electrically connected to a mating terminal by being inserted into the mating terminal. The connecting portion has a sliding region configured to slide on the mating terminal and a contact region configured to contact the mating terminal successively from a tip side. An outermost surface in the sliding region includes a copper-tin alloy layer containing copper and tin. An outermost surface in the contact region includes a tin layer containing tin as a main component. A Vickers hardness of the copper-tin alloy layer is higher than a Vickers hardness of the tin layer.

Terminal, connector, terminal pair and connector pair

A connector that includes a male connector; and a female connector including a housing to be fit to the male connector along a connecting direction, wherein: a first connector of the male connector and the female connector is fixed with a second connector of the male connector and the female connector connected and, a rigidity k [N/m] satisfies k&#x3c;360000 when the second connector is distorted at a test speed of 1 mm/min in a direction intersecting the connecting direction and satisfies k&#x2265;(2.0&#xd7;10)&#xd7;m, where m [kg] denotes a mass of the second connector.

Connector

A connectorto be fit into an open receptacleof a male connectorincludes a terminalconnected to an end part of a wire, and a housingfor holding the terminal. The housingincludes a lead-out portionfor leading out the wireconnected to the terminalto outside, a protruding portionprotruding outward to face a tip part of the receptacle, an external fitting portionprojecting from the protruding portiontoward the receptacleto be externally fit to the tip part of the receptacleand expose an outer surface of a base end side of the receptacle, and a reinforcing ribA,B connected to the lead-out portionand the protruding portion

Connector with reinforcing rib

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Mie, Japan

Takeshi Masuda