Abstract: A crimp structure includes a crimp section having an insulated ferrule disposed inside an outer conductor of a shielded cable. The outer conductor and a ground contact placed on an outer periphery of the outer conductor are crimped.

Abstract: An electric connector terminal assembly which allows numerous different terminal connector ends and wire diameters to be connected to a single size and type crimp cylinder using an rolled metal strip insert. Preferably, the metal strip is made of copper, and preferably the copper strip is coated with tin. The metal strip is then formed into a cylinder for insertion to the crimp cylinder. A method for connecting a crimp terminal to an electric wire is also disclosed. The method requires cutting a metal strip to form a plurality of parallel compliant members (e.g., fingers) connected to a base, rolling the cut strip to form a cylindrical insert, positioning the insert within a crimp cylinder of an electric connector with the fingers extending toward the mating end, inserting an electric wire within the cylindrical insert, and crimping the crimp cylinder to secure the electric wire within the cylindrical insert and crimp cylinder.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy contains equal to or more than 0.005 mass % and equal to or less than 2.2 mass % of Fe, and a remainder of Al and an inevitable impurity. In a transverse section of the aluminum alloy wire, a surface-layer void measurement region in a shape of a rectangle having a short side length of 30 ?m and a long side length of 50 ?m is defined within a surface layer region extending from a surface of the aluminum alloy wire by 30 ?m in a depth direction, and a total cross-sectional area of voids in the surface-layer void measurement region is equal to or less than 2 ?m2.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a terminal connecting structure which may enable the conductivity to be improved. A terminal connecting structure is intended for connecting a terminal to an electric wire, the electric wire including an aluminum conductor with aluminum, wherein the terminal connecting structure further comprises a conductive connection body formed with aluminum, wherein one end of the connection body is butt-connected to the aluminum conductor, and wherein another end of the connection body is connected to the terminal via crimping. This enables the terminal to be connected to the electric wire via the connection body without crimping the bundle of cores. This may eliminate influence of crimping on the aluminum conductor and enable the conductivity between the electric wire and the terminal to be improved.

Abstract: A female terminal (12) to be connected to an end of a wire (11) is provided with a wire connecting portion (19) including a base (22) and first and second pinching portions (14, 15) extending along an extending direction from the base (22) and configured to pinch the wire (11), and a sliding portion (18) movable along the extending direction and including first pressing portions (16A, 16B) and second pressing portions (17A, 17B) for pressing the first and second pinching portions (14, 15) toward the wire (11) by coming into contact with the first and second pinching portions (14, 15). The first pressing portions (16A, 16B) and the second pressing portions (17A, 17B) project toward the first and second pinching portions (14, 15) and are side by side at an interval in a direction intersecting the extending direction.

Abstract: A hybrid jumper cable includes: a pair of power conductors; a pair of optical fibers; a jacket surrounding the pair of power conductors and the pair of optical fibers; a hybrid connector connected with the pair of power conductors and the pair of optical fibers; a capacitor electrically connected to each of the pair of power conductors; and a conduit attached to the hybrid connector, the capacitor residing in the conduit.

Abstract: A receptacle terminal includes a base portion having a plate shape extending in a transverse direction and a longitudinal direction and a plurality of pairs of elastic arms arranged in sequence and spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction. Each of the elastic arms has a contact portion contacting a plug terminal inserted into the receptacle terminal. A distance from the contact portions of a middle pair of elastic arms to the base portion is less than a distance from the contact portions of another two pairs of elastic arms to the base portion.

Abstract: An electrical contact assembly having a braided Litz wire and an electrical contact. The electrical contact has a contact portion and a Litz wire termination portion. The contact portion is configured to make an electrical connection with a mating contact. The Litz wire termination portion has serrations which engage the braided Litz wire. The Litz wire termination portion has a length to allow the Litz wire termination portion to make an electrical connection with each individual wire of the Litz wire.

Abstract: A female terminal 12 is a female terminal including a terminal body 15 including a deformable upper connection piece 18A and a deformable lower connection piece 18B, the upper and lower connection pieces 18A and 18B having contact surfaces 21A and 21B that come in contact with a core 13 of a wire 11, respectively, and extending in an extension direction, and a slide 16 configured to move along the extension direction. The slide 16 has an upper contact portion 25A and a lower contact portion 25B that press the upper connection piece 18A and the lower connection piece 18B, respectively, to the core 13 while the core 13 is disposed in contact with the contact surfaces 21A and 21B of the upper and lower connection pieces 18A and 18B along the extension direction.

Abstract: In an aspect, a connection adapter is provided for connecting an earthing line to a metal protective hose, where the adapter includes an electrically conductive cylindrical body having an end face with an opening therein for passage of electrical conductors and the earthing line therethrough, and a receiving shoe connected to the end face, which is configured to seat the earthing line. The cylindrical body includes a plurality of inwardly facing tabs and is sized to fit over the metal protective hose. The tabs are configured to contact and slide over the metal protective hose so as to ensure an electrical connection is present between the metal protective hose and the earthing line.

Abstract: In the conductor crimping portion (3), side portions (3a, 3b) are folded into a bottom layer plate (3c) and a top layer plate (3d), and edges of the side portions (3a, 3b) are abutted against each other to form a joint (3g). Additionally, three long groove-like punched long holes (3i to 3k), for example, are provided in an oblique direction with respect to a longitudinal direction of the crimp connection terminal in a bottom portion (3h) of the top layer plate (3d). A shallow round recessed portion (3l) is formed in the surface of the punched long hole (3i) by stamping. Edges (3m) of this recessed portion (3l) and new edges (3n?) formed by edges (3n) of the punched long hole (3i), obtained by the punching, being pushed inward by the stamping are formed in two steps.

Abstract: A connecting structure uses a crimp terminal to connect a bus bar and an electrical wire together. The crimp terminal includes a bus bar-connecting section to be crimped to the bus bar, and an electrical wire-connecting section to be crimped to an end of the electrical wire. At least one of the bus bar-connecting section and the electrical wire-connecting section is provided with an oxide film breaking means for breaking an oxide film on the bus bar or a core wire on the end of the electrical wire.

Abstract: An electrical shield connector configured to be attached to an end of a shielded cable having a conductive wire and a shield conductor longitudinally surrounding the conductive wire. The shield connector includes a connection portion that is configured for connection with a corresponding mating electrical shield connector and a cable attachment portion that is configured to longitudinally receive an end of the shield conductor. The connection portion defines a shroud surrounding an electrical terminal attached to the conductive wire. The cable attachment portion and/or crimp wings projecting therefrom define a projection that is configured to contact and indent the shield conductor, thereby mechanically and electrically connecting the shield connector to the shield conductor. The cable attachment portion may also define a knurled pattern in an interior surface of the cable attachment portion, such as a knurled pattern having a number of rhomboid-shaped indentations.

Abstract: In a connecting method of a pressure attaching terminal to an electric wire, the pressure attaching terminal includes first and second electric wire connecting parts having U shapes and having a bottom plate part and one pairs of electric wire caulking pieces. When the electric wire is a single core electric wire, a single core conductor is set and one pairs of electric wire caulking pieces are respectively bent inside to caulk the caulking pieces to the single core conductor. When the electric wire is a multi-core electric wire as a multi-core twisted conductor, the multi-core conductor is set, and the one pair of electric wire caulking pieces are bent inside to caulk the electric wire caulking pieces to the multi-core conductor, and the one pair of electric wire caulking pieces are bent inside to caulk the electric wire caulking pieces to the part covered with a coat.

Abstract: A terminal includes a connector portion electrically connectable to an external terminal, a tubular crimp portion formed integrally or separate from the connector portion and crimps with a wire, and a transition portion coupling the two. The tubular crimp portion of a copper or copper alloy metal base material or a metal member having the same is a tubular member closed on transition portion side and reduces in diameter towards the transition portion side such that a conductor-end portion of the electric wire is un-exposed. The tubular crimp portion has a belt-shaped weld portion along a longitudinal direction of the tubular crimp portion. A circumferential direction of the tubular crimp portion matches the RD-direction of the base material. A sum of area ratios R1, R2 and R3 in a rolling plane of the base material, of Cube-, RDW-, and Goss-oriented crystal grains, respectively, is greater than or equal to 15%.

Abstract: A terminal includes a tubular crimp portion that crimp connects with an electric wire. The tubular crimp portion is composed of a metal member. The tubular crimp portion includes a non-weld portion and a weld portion, the weld portion being formed by welding. A metal base material constituting the metal member of the non-weld portion includes a normal portion and an annealed portion.

Abstract: A press bond terminal in which the terminal is provided with an electrical connection part on which is provided a conductor press bond part connected by being pressed and bonded to a conductor of an electric wire through a first joining part and the conductor press bond part is further provided with a coating crimp part through a second joining part and the conductor press bond part is formed in substantially a U-shaped cross section by a base plate and a pair of conductor crimp pieces and both joining parts are formed in substantially U-shaped cross sections by base plates and a pair of low side plates, with projections provided on any inner surfaces of the conductor crimp pieces or inner surfaces of the side plates of the joining parts.

Abstract: A through-the-hole (TTH)/surface mount (SMT) insulation piercing connector includes one or two spaced electrical contacts. Each contact has a flat plate portion and integrally-formed legs. An L-shaped hook portion on the flat plate portion has a piercing tip pointed in a direction away from the legs. The piercing tip is spaced from the flat plate portion, the flat plate portion being configured and dimensioned to bend in the direction towards the piercing tip when pressed to urge an insulated wire onto said piercing tip to cause it to penetrate the wire insulation and make electrical contact with the internal conductive wires or strands within the wire. The legs are insertable into mounting holes in a substrate for direct TTH mounting in a PCB or to be secured to a header provided with mounting holes by TTH soldering and surface mounting by a pick-and-place machine acting on the header.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a press bond terminal capable of easily ensuring compatibility between electrical connection performance and mechanical connection performance in the case of connecting a terminal to an electric wire. In a press bond terminal (10) having a conductor press bond part (13) connected by being pressed and bonded to a distal end of a conductor (Wa) of an electric wire, the conductor press bond part (13) being formed in substantially a U-shaped cross section by a base plate (13A) and a pair of conductor crimp pieces (13B) which is extended upward from both right and left lateral edges of the base plate (13A) and is crimped so as to wrap the conductor (Wa) disposed on an inner surface of the base plate (13A), an inner surface of the base plate (13A) of the conductor press bond part (13) is provided with a projecting bar (22).

Abstract: Provided is a crimping terminal, having a conductor crimping portion of a wire connection portion formed so as to have a substantially U-shaped cross-section with a bottom plate and a pair of conductor caulking pieces, and a sheath caulking portion formed so as to have a substantially U shaped cross-section with a bottom plate and a pair of sheath caulking pieces. The bottom plate of the conductor crimping portion and the bottom plate of the sheath caulking portion are continuously formed as a common bottom plate, and the wire connection portion, which is provided therein with a pair of covering walls formed continuously between the conductor caulking piece and the sheath caulking piece, is formed on an entire inner surface thereof with serrations, in the direction of intersecting with a longitudinal direction of electric wire.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a press bond terminal capable of easily ensuring compatibility between electrical connection performance and mechanical connection performance in the case of connecting a terminal to an electric wire. In a press bond terminal (10) having a conductor press bond part (13) connected by being pressed and bonded to a distal end of a conductor (Wa) of an electric wire, the conductor press bond part (13) being formed in substantially a U-shaped cross section by a base plate (13A) and a pair of conductor crimp pieces (13B) which is extended upward from both right and left lateral edges of the base plate (13A) and is crimped so as to wrap the conductor (Wa) disposed on an inner surface of the base plate (13A), an inner surface of the base plate (13A) of the conductor press bond part (13) is provided with a projecting bar (22).

Abstract: The invention relates to a plug connector having a main part, comprising a contact blade basket or skirt having at least one first and one second contact zone. Said contact zones are disposed one after the other in the longitudinal direction of the plug connector and have a plurality of contact blades. Adjacent contact blades are separated from each other by a gap. An intermediate wall is provided between the contact zones disposed one after the other, forming a conductive contact both between the contact blades of the first contact zone and the contact blades of the second contact and between the individual contact blades of the first contact zone and the individual contact blades of the second contact zone.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a plug and a power connector. The plug is applied in a power connector connected between a power supply device and a radio frequency module. The plug includes a jack and a crimping component set at a tail end of the jack, and the crimping component is configured to connect a power cable introduced from the power supply device to the jack in a manner of fixing. A power connector that includes the plug is further provided. By using the technical solutions according to the embodiments, easy on-site installation of the power connector that includes the plug during use may be ensured.

Abstract: A bushing for a reefer plug includes an annular body having proximal and distal ends and an interior conduit for receiving an electrical cable. A distal circumferential seal portion is at the distal end, the distal circumferential seal inclining radially outwardly in the distal to proximal direction. A reefer plug assembly and method for connecting an electrical cable to a reefer plug are also disclosed.

Abstract: Methods are provided for automatically crimping terminals or connectors to wires wherein the terminals or connectors are provided in strip form and may be of varying sizes, shapes, and pitches. A method according to the present invention includes providing a plurality of terminal connectors, the connectors being secured to a terminal strip in side-by-side relationship with their axes extending laterally from the strip; moving a crimping die on a ram through a working stroke towards, and a return stroke away from, a crimping anvil to crimp an individual terminal connector located therebetween onto a wire during each working stroke of the ram; and indexing the strip between successive crimping operations thereby to locate a next leading connector on the strip between the die and anvil, wherein the strip is indexed by a drive mechanism contacting the strip through pressure-engagement.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plug connector having a main part, comprising a contact blade basket or skirt having at least one first and one second contact zone. Said contact zones are disposed one after the other in the longitudinal direction of the plug connector and have a plurality of contact blades. Adjacent contact blades are separated from each other by a gap. An intermediate wall is provided between the contact zones disposed one after the other, forming a conductive contact both between the contact blades of the first contact zone and the contact blades of the second contact and between the individual contact blades of the first contact zone and the individual contact blades of the second contact zone.

Abstract: A crimp for joining copper wires in a telecommunications exchange, the crimp including a cylindrical wall of material comprising an alloy containing copper, iron, nickel, and manganese, and in an embodiment having a composition conforming to BS CN102.

Abstract: An electric wire with a terminal connector includes an electric wire and a female terminal connector crimped onto a core wire exposed at the electric wire. A female terminal connector has a wire barrel having a surface to be applied to the core wire. The surface has a plurality of recesses formed therein. Each recess has a parallelogram-shaped opening edge. The opening edge of the recess includes a pair of first opening edges that are parallel to each other and a pair of second opening edges that are parallel to each other and different from the first opening edges. The recesses are spaced in the extending direction of the first opening edges and are spaced in the extending direction of the second opening edges.

Abstract: A crimp contact device includes a crimping member. The crimping member is configured to crimp a wire, and has a first portion and a second portion which is near to an end of the crimping member than the first portion. A pressure applied to the wire by the second portion is decreased according to a direction from the first portion toward the end of the crimping member.

Abstract: A crimping terminal joined with an aluminum electric wire, in which when the crimping terminal is crimped to the wire, a conduct-purpose crimping portion and a wire-hold crimping portion are formed at a crimping portion of a wire barrel of the crimping terminal. The crimping portion of the wire barrel is formed so as a curvature thereof is projected upwardly in a direction of moving a crimping die and so as a crimp height increases and a compression ratio decreases towards an insulation barrel of the crimping terminal. The curvature is shaped to have a constant degree of curvature, and is shaped to form a quadratic curve as a result of strictly adjusting a crimping force.

Abstract: A crimping terminal includes a pair of core wire crimping pieces raised up from a bottom plate. A contact strip is provided with gaps formed between the core wire crimping pieces and the contact strip for inserting core wires of an aluminum electric wire. The contact strip has a sloped wall or a curved wall for guiding the core wires from the gaps toward the bottom plate. The contact strip is formed in a flat plate shape, and has sloped walls at both left and right sides thereof. The contact strip is formed in an arc sectional shape, and has curved walls at both left and right sides thereof. The contact strip is formed in an inverted V sectional shape, and has sloped walls at both left and right sides thereof. The contact strips are arranged two-tiered. A serration is formed on the contact strip.

Abstract: A press-clamping structure includes: a wire; and a press-clamping terminal which includes a conductor press-clamping portion having a generally U-shaped cross-section. The conductor press-clamping portion includes a bottom plate and a pair of conductor caulking pieces which are bent inwardly to embrace the conductor of the wire and caulk the conductor. Distal end portions of the conductor caulking pieces are bent outwardly in a opposite direction to each other. When P1 represents a point closest to the bottom plate on an area in which the outer surfaces of the conductor caulking pieces are contacted with each other, and P2 represents a point closest to the bottom plate on the distal end portion of each of the conductor caulking piece, a formula Lh<Lw is established where Lh represents a height from the point P2 to the point P1, and Lw represents a distance between the respective points P2.

Abstract: A one piece integral electrical terminal has a mount portion and a wire receiving portion. The wire receiving portion has a continuous annular interior wall having a contact portion with an integral oxide breaker especially suited to breaking through the oxide layer on aluminum wire. The wire receiving portion also has a sealing portion with at least one integral seal ring. An electrical cable is made by crimping the electrical terminal to an aluminum wire using a modified hexagonal crimp.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a crimp contact for an aluminum stranded wire having a serration provided in an inner face of a crimping portion of the crimp contact, wherein a ratio d/e is 0.33 or more, in which d represents a depth of a groove constituting the serration and e represents a diameter of an aluminum wire constituting the aluminum stranded wire. The number of grooves in the crimp contact is 3 or more. The present invention is also directed to a cable end structure of an aluminum stranded wire, wherein a ratio between a sectional area of the aluminum stranded wire after crimping and a sectional area thereof before crimping is from 0.7 to 0.95.

Abstract: Inwardly-directed projecting portions (2, 3) are formed in a bent manner respectively at distal ends of a pair of clamping piece portions (4, 5) which are continuous with each other, and form a wire connection portion (7) of a terminal (1). A conductor portion (9) of a wire (8) is located on the inner sides of the pair of clamping piece portions (4, 5), and the pair of clamping piece portions are pressed over an entire periphery into a circular shape, and are extended in a peripheral direction, thereby causing projecting extension portions (2?, 3?), including the projecting portions (2, 3), to bite into the conductor portion. Before the pressing operation, the pair of clamping piece portions (4, 5) may be provisionally pressed to be curved, thereby causing distal ends of the projecting portions (2, 3) to bite slightly into an outer peripheral surface of the conductor portion (9).

Abstract: A press-clamping structure includes: a wire; and a press-clamping terminal which includes a conductor press-clamping portion having a generally U-shaped cross-section. The conductor press-clamping portion includes a bottom plate and a pair of conductor caulking pieces which are bent inwardly to embrace the conductor of the wire and caulk the conductor. Distal end portions of the conductor caulking pieces are bent outwardly in a opposite direction to each other. When P1 represents a point closest to the bottom plate on an area in which the outer surfaces of the conductor caulking pieces are contacted with each other, and P2 represents a point closest to the bottom plate on the distal end portion of each of the conductor caulking piece, a formula Lh<Lw is established where Lh represents a height from the point P2 to the point P1, and Lw represents a distance between the respective points P2.

Abstract: An adaptor is for electrically connecting with pins of an electrical connector. The adaptor includes an insulating housing, a pair of crimping connectors, and two connecting members. The insulating housing includes two holes. The crimping connectors are accommodated respectively in the holes. Each crimping connector includes a first crimping portion for electrically connecting to one of the pins and a second crimping portion together formed with the first crimping portion. The connecting members are electrically connected with the crimping connectors respectively. Each connecting member includes a first end, a cable, and a second end. The first end is electrically connected with the second crimping portion. The cable is electrically connected with the first end. The second end is electrically connected with the cable, wherein the second end has a through hole. A testing device for testing the electrical connector is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for contacting an electrical conductor of a cable with a conductor trace (8) of a circuit board (2), characterized in that the device is made as a press-in contact (1) fittable in a hole of the circuit board (2) and securable there without solder and having a press-in part electrically contacting the conductor trace (8) and a contacting region (5) for securing and electrically contacting the end of the electrical conductor of the cable.

Abstract: The collapsing bridge crimp comprises a central portion and two mutually-opposite side arms extending from the central portion. Each side arm comprises a first portion attached to the central portion, the first portion being inwardly curved, and a second portion extending from the first portion and located above the central portion. The second portion of each side arm is substantially straight and defines an upwardly-oriented angle with reference to the central portion. The second portion also has a free end provided with an end face, the end face of both side arms defining a top-opened wire-receiving groove between them.

Abstract: A female terminal fitting (20) is provided with a pair of fastening pieces (26) extending from the opposite side edges of a bottom plate (24), and the fastening pieces (26) are bent inward toward each other, thereby wrapping around the outer circumferential surface of a sealing member (30) fitted on a wire (10) to fasten the sealing member (30) together with the wire (10). Sealing-member protecting portions (27) are formed on side edges of the inner surfaces of the fastening pieces (26) and are aligned at obtuse angles to contact surfaces (29). Therefore, the bite in the sealing member (30) can be hindered over a wide range.

Abstract: A bottom plate portion (3) of a flat cable terminal (1) is partially cut to form at least one spring piece portion (6). The at least one spring piece portion (6) is upwardly raised relative to the bottom plate portion (3). At least one barrel (4) pierces a base sheet (42) of a FPC (40) in a thickness direction thereof, and is so folded that a conductor (41) formed on the base sheet (42) of the FPC (40) is pressed and held between the at least one barrel (4) and the at least one spring piece portion (6). A fine projection (7) is formed on the spring piece portion (6) in order to firmly press against the conductor (41) of the FPC (40). A distal end of the barrel (4) is chamfered so as to facilitate penetration of the barrel (4) relative to the base sheet (42) of the FPC (40).

Abstract: An electric storage battery connector assembly, including a male connector, which includes an elongate, generally cylindrical, electrically-conductive post having a fixed end for being attached to an electrical cable and a free end. A female connector electrically communicates with a terminal of the battery. The female connector is formed of an electrically-conductive material and has a recess therein for receiving therein the post of the male connector. A cam is integrally-formed on the free end of the post of the male connector, and a cam follower is carried in the recess of the female connector for cooperating with the cam on the post of the male connector for relative rotational movement between the unlocked position where the post may be inserted into or removed from the recess in the female connector, and the locked position where the post is locked into the recess of the female connector against removal therefrom.

Abstract: A female electrical terminal has a contact end a terminating end. The contact end is generally rectangular in cross-section and includes a pair of opposing side walls extending upwardly from opposite sides of a bottom wall, along with a top wall. A deformable tab is provided in each side wall. A spring contact element is located in the contact end for biasingly engaging a male terminal inserted into the contact end. The spring contact element includes recess portions adapted to receive the deformable tabs of the side walls.

Abstract: A crimp connector, comprising a socket housing having received therein a crimp terminal comprising a contact, a pair of claws for holding a stripped portion of a wire, and a pair of claws for holding an unstripped portion of the wire, said housing being provided; at the front end face thereof with an opening or said contact; at the top thereof with an opening through which the wire is inserted and crimpers to crimp the stripped portion holding claws and the unstripped portion holding claws are inserted; and at the bottom thereof with an opening through which an anvil to crimp said stripped portion holding claws is inserted. A method of attaching electric wires to the crimp connector is also disclosed. The present crimp connector makes it possible to attach wires in the state that crimp terminals have been built in a socket housing.

Abstract: An electrical connector for connecting overlapped conductors is disclosed. The connector is similar to connectors of the clam shell type haivng a pair of compressibly-movable hingedly-connected ends which accommodate the conductors therebetween. The ends of the connectors are positioned in spaced mutually parallel relationship. The conductors are supported therebetween. A hinge connecting the two ends is collapsibly-deformable to maintain the relative parallel positions of the ends throughout compression of the connector.

Abstract: A waterproof splice connector for pairs of electrical leads having a high tensile pullout resistance, suitable for use in splicing blasting cap leads, in which the each of the electrical leads are received in opposite ends of a respective one of a pair of clip connected tubular bodies, through holes formed in sealing end plugs. A tubular metal insert is disposed in each body and has oppositely directed roughly conical lead end receptacles, each formed with wire lead retaining barbs. The conical receptacles overlap such that the full length of the insert is utilized to grip a respective electrical lead. The sealing plugs are formed of a resilient material compressed into converging transition sections of the connector body to compress the plug ends and thereby close off the openings and sealingly grip a respective electrical lead. The interior of the connector is filled with an anti-oxidant sealant enhancing the water proofing of the connector interior.