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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 30, 1998
Jose H. Chavez, Jr., Romeoville, IL (US);
Gary M. Comstock, LaGrange, IL (US);
Arvind Patel, Naperville, IL (US);
Timothy E. Purkis, Naperville, IL (US);
Yew Teck Yap, Naperville, IL (US);
Molex Incorporated, Lisle, IL (US);
Abstract
A method of manufacturing electrical terminals and/or a terminal module is disclosed. The method includes the steps of stamping from a sheet of metal material a blank for a plurality of elongated terminals having contact portions at one end and terminal portions at the other end and joining the terminals by a tie bar intermediate the ends. The contact portions of the respective terminals are separated from each other by the stamping step. The terminal portions remain joined in the sheet of metal after the stamping step. The blank then is sheared to separate the terminal portions. The tie bar is cut to separate the terminals. In order to form a terminal module, a dielectric housing is overmolded about the terminals intermediate the ends thereof, with the tie bar being located outside the housing and removed after the overmolding process.