Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Autonetworks Technologies, Limited

Sumitomo Wiring System, Ltd.

Yoshiaki Yamano

Tetsuya Nakamura

Takaaki Ito

Junichi Ono

Takuya Yamashita

Kazuhito Saka

Kazuo Iura

Naoya Nishimura

Tomonori Inagaki

Koji Fukumoto

Yasuo Omori

Hajime Matsui

Shunya Takeuchi

Masahiro Hagi

Takehiro Nakata

Hirotaka Baba

Masayoshi Hashimoto

Hiroki Hirai

Yasuyuki Otsuka

Tatsuya Hase

Shigeyuki Tanaka

Takehiro Hosokawa

Kohei Kobayashi

Takuji Otsuka

Yutaka Takata

Takuji Ootsuka

Akiko Inoue

Hiroshi Fujimoto

Tatsuya Shimada

Takayasu Sugihara

Shinichi Matsumoto

Fumitoshi Imasato

Hideki Nomura

Hiroshi Sudou

Masaharu Ichikawa

Toshio Kometani

Hiroji Kodera

Kenji Mizutani

Hideaki Shibata

Kazunari Sakura

Katsutoshi Saijo

Hiroyuki Hasui

Akira Yamada

Tatsuo Inoue

Misato Ueki

Ryou Senoo

Iwao Wada

Atsushi Kasamatsu

A terminal-equipped wire in which a terminal fitting and a wire obtained by covering an outer periphery of a conductor with an insulating covering are electrically connected to each other at an electric connection, the terminal-equipped wire including a resin covering that is made of a resin material, and covers the electric connection, wherein: the resin covering includes, in a region that covers at least part of the terminal fitting, a first covering layer that is in contact with a surface of the terminal fitting and a second covering layer that covers at least part of the first covering layer, and the first covering layer has a recess, and the recess is covered by the second covering layer.

Terminal-equipped wire and wire harness

Provided is a terminal-attached electric wire including: an electric wire having a conductor made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy whose outer circumference is covered with an insulating layer; and a terminal member made of copper or a copper alloy and attached to a conductor-exposed portion exposed from the insulating layer at an end portion of the electric wire. The terminal member includes a coating layer made of an electrically conductive material and formed at a terminal-exposed portion except for a place of contact with the conductor in a surface of the terminal member, and an oxide film of the electrically conductive material formed in a surface of the coating layer. The electrically conductive material is a metal or an alloy which forms an oxide film having a thickness of more than or equal to 20 nm in a surface thereof.

Terminal-attached electric wire and wire harness

A terminal-equipped electrical wire that includes a terminal fitting; an electrical wire that includes a conductor surrounded by an insulation covering and is electrically connected to the terminal fitting in an electrical connection; and a resin cover that is made of a resin material and covers the electrical connection, wherein the resin cover is in contact with the terminal fitting and the insulation covering, a tensile shear adhesion strength between the resin cover and the terminal fitting is 1.0 MPa or higher, and a tensile shear adhesion strength between the resin cover and the insulation covering is 0.5 MPa or higher.

Cable with terminal formed therein and wire harness

A terminal-equipped wire that includes a terminal fitting; a wire including a conductor and a wire covering that covers an outer circumference of the conductor, the wire being electrically connected to the terminal fitting at an electric connection; and a resin covering that covers the electric connection and is in contact with the wire covering.

A wire with terminalincludes a wirehaving a conductor partand an insulation coatingsurrounding the conductor part, a water stop portionto be held in close contact with an outer surface of the insulation coating, and a terminalhaving a conductor crimping portionto be crimped to the conductor partand a water stop holding portionconfigured to hold the water stop portionby being held in close contact with an outer surface side of the water stop portion

Wire with terminal and method for producing wire with terminal

A wire with terminal, () includes a barrel () formed in a rear end part of a terminal fitting () such that two crimping pieces () extend from both widthwise side edges of a base plate () and crimped to surround an exposed area () of a core () with extending end parts (E) of the crimping pieces () held close to each other, and a mold () covering the entire exposed area of the core () including a crimped part to the barrel () in a liquid-tight manner. A front end of the core () is disposed behind those of the crimping pieces (). The barrel () is formed with a communicating portion () for causing a crimping space () of the barrel () to be open in an outer peripheral surface of the barrel () on a side before the front end of the core ().

Wire with a core, a terminal with barrels crimped to the core and a molded portion covering the barrels and the core

A connector (A) includes a barrel () formed in a terminal fitting () and crimped to surround a front end part of a coated wire (). The barrel () has a base plate () connected to a bottom portion () of a terminal body () and two crimping pieces () extending from both widthwise sides of the base plate (). A molded portion () surrounds the barrel () over an entire periphery and is configured to cover the front end part of the coated wire () in a liquid-tight manner. A housing () is formed with a terminal accommodation chamber () for accommodating the entire terminal fitting (). The base plate () is raised with respect to the bottom portion () of the terminal body ().

Connector housing containing a wire terminal with a molded portion

A terminal-equipped wire includes a wire with a core wire and an insulating coating with which the core wire is coated, and a terminal fitting that is attached to a leading end of the wire. The terminal fitting is electrically connected to the core wire in a core-wire crimp portion, and is fixed to the wire from an external side of the insulating coating in a coating crimp portion that is located rearward of the core-wire crimp portion in a longitudinal direction of the wire. The terminal-equipped wire also includes a resin-coated portion where a region containing the core-wire crimp portion and the coating crimp portion is coated with a resin. The resin-coated portion has a thin-walled portion with a reduced thickness, in a portion of the resin-coated portion that covers the insulating coating.

Terminal-equipped wire and wire harness with resin coating on terminal fitting

A wire harness including a wire fitting is provided that maintains the length of the portion of the wire bundle that extends to the outside of the wire fitting reliably at a tolerance range without impeding the freedom of bending the wire bundle. A wire harness includes a wire fitting having a base and a cover covering a portion of a wire bundle together with the base. The base is provided with a protrusion that pierces the insulated wires at a portion further to an outer edge of the base than a portion of the wire bundle that is tied together by a first tie member, the wire bundle extending from the base to an outside of the base.

Wire harness and wire fitting

A crimped terminal for automobiles includes an aluminum electric wire, a connecting terminal made from a copper-based material, and a resin-coated portion. The connecting terminal is crimped onto an end of the wire and includes a crimped member, a crimped portion where the terminal is crimped onto the wire, and the resin-coated portion disposed on the crimped portion, wherein the resin-coated portion is disposed on the crimped portion while an entire periphery of the crimped portion is coated with the resin-coated portion.

Crimped terminal wire for automobile

The lead-out side end of a drain wire led out from a shield wire and either a conductor exposed to one end of a ground wire, to the other end of which a ground terminal is connected, or a conductor exposed to one end of a ground wire, to the other end of which a connector receiving terminal is connected, are collectively connected together by crimping by using a U-shape cross-sectioned intermediate crimp terminal formed by a pair of opposed barrels, or connected by twisting them together, or connected through a joint bus bar.

Shielded wire-grounding construction

A Drain wire led out from the interior to the exterior of a shielded wire is covered with a heat shrinkable tube made of an insulating resin or with a rubber tube including silicon or EPDM (ethylene-propylene rubber). A water-stop agent is penetrated between the element wires of the drain wire in the heat shrinkable tube or the rubber tube. In addition, A boundary portion between a terminal connected to an end of the drain wire and the heat shrinkable tube is covered with a rubber stopper.

Construction for stopping water from penetrating into drain wire contained in shielded wire and method for stopping water from penetrating thereinto

The invention relates to an ultrasonic welding and cutting device for use in the manufacture of a flat-cable. The flat cable includes a plurality of wire conductors which are arranged in parallel at a given interval with respect to each other and interposed between first and second insulator films. The device has a product flow line in an upstream to downstream direction. The device comprises a horn unit including a horn melter unit that imparts ultrasonic oscillations, and a horn cutter unit. The horn melter unit and the horn cutter unit are located sequentially from upstream to downstream at a predetermined distance along the product flow line. The device further includes an anvil unit including an anvil melter unit and at least one anvil blade unit. The anvil melter unit and the at least one anvil blade unit respectively face the horn melter unit and the horn cutter unit along the product flow line, such that, when the first and second insulator films containing the plurality of wire conductors are passed between the horn and anvil units, the first and second insulator films can be fused and adhered by the horn and anvil melter units, and successively fused and cut or trimmed by the horn cutter unit and the at least one anvil blade unit, respectively along the product flow line.

Ultrasonic welding and cutting device for use in the manufacture of a flat cable

A flat cable includes first and second insulator sheets, and a plurality of conductor elements arranged in parallel relation to one another over the length of the sheets. The first insulator sheet is provided with an adhesive layer. The conductor elements are interposed between the adhesive layer and the second insulator sheet. The first and second insulator sheets are first press-adhered under heat through the adhesive layer, and then bonded by an ultrasonic welding unit. The ultrasonic welding unit includes a horn for imparting ultrasonic oscillations, and an anvil placed in opposition to the horn. The first and second insulator sheets are bonded in the zones which extend along the length of the sheets and are located outside the loci where the conductor elements are arranged. The bonding is performed either continuously or in an intermittent manner.

Flat cable and a manufacturing method therefor

A flat cable includes first and second insulator sheets, and a plurality of conductor elements arranged in parallel relation to one another over the length of the sheets. The first insulator sheet is provided with an adhesive layer. The conductor elements are interposed between the adhesive layer and the second insulator sheet. The first and second insulator sheets are first press-adhered under heat through the adhesive layer, and then bonded by an ultrasonic welding unit. The ultrasonic welding unit includes a horn for imparting ultrasonic oscillations, and an anvil placed in opposition to the horn. The first and second insulator sheets are bonded in the zones which extend along the length of the sheets and are located outside the loci where the conductor elements are arranged. The bonding is performed either continuously or in an intermittent manner. In a flat cable thus produced, the conductor elements embedded therein are efficiently prevented from mutual short-circuiting. Although the adhesive layer is made very thin, the insulator sheets are adhered to each other very firmly.

Flat cable and a manufacturing method thereof

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