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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2010
Shuichi Kitagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kengo Mitose, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A connector terminal, fabricated from a metallic material for connector which material has a tin or tin alloy layer, formed on a copper or copper alloy base material, wherein the thickness of the tin or tin alloy layer at a contact site on the surface of the terminal is smaller than the thickness of the tin or tin alloy layer in the areas other than the contact site, and a copper-tin alloy layer is formed as an under layer of the tin or tin alloy layer at the contact site; and a connector terminal, fabricated from a metallic material for connector which material has a copper or copper alloy base material, wherein a copper-tin alloy layer is formed in a spot shape at a contact site on the surface of the terminal, and a tin or tin alloy layer is formed in the remaining areas on the surface.