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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2015
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc., Shiga, JP;
Takashi Tonoike, Shiga, JP;
Yukihiro Kawamura, Shiga, JP;
Saburo Yagi, Tokyo, JP;
Katsunori Takeda, Shiga, JP;
Mikio Kuwahara, Shiga, JP;
FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC., Shiga, JP;
Abstract
A crimp terminal has a crimp portion that is formed by bending a plate material into a hollow shape and that has at one end thereof an opening capable of accommodating and crimping a conductor portion of a coated wire. The crimp terminal includes a first weld portion obtained by bringing two edge portions of the crimp portion in close proximity to each other and joining by laser welding, and a second weld portion obtained by forming a lapped portion by overlapping of a transition portion formed at an opposite end of the crimp portion to the opening, and closing the lapped portion by laser welding. A welding trajectory in the second weld portion is constituted by a curve, a plurality of straight lines, or a discontinuously formed line.