Metallic Connector Or Contact Also Having Securing Part Adapted To Be Crimped, Deformed, Or Bent Onto Conductor Patents (Class 439/877)
  • Patent number: 8442658
    Abstract: An implantable cardiac electrotherapy lead is disclosed herein. The lead may include an electrode on a distal portion of the lead, a conductor extending proximally through the lead from the electrode, and a crimp connector coupling a distal end of the conductor to the electrode. The connector may include a body with an outer surface, an inner surface, proximal and distal ends, a cavity, and at least one splice opening. The inner surface defines the cavity, the proximal and distal ends respectively define proximal and distal openings leading to the cavity, and the at least one splice opening extends from the outer surface to the inner surface and is oriented generally transverse to an axis extending between the proximal and distal openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Pacesetter, Inc.
    Inventor: Yong Li
  • Publication number: 20130115828
    Abstract: An electrical contact includes a knurl pattern disposed along at least a portion of an interior surface of the electrical contact. The portion receives a lead of a wire cable along a longitudinal axis and is attached thereto to form a crimp connection. The knurl pattern includes a plurality of recessed elements and each recessed element has a rhombus shape that includes inner corners. An orientation of a first pair of opposing, generally axial inner corners define an axial minor distance therebetween and an orientation of a second pair of opposing, inner corners define a major distance therebetween. The axial minor distance is less than the major distance. The recessed elements of the knurl pattern are especially suitable for engagement with an aluminum wire cable to form the crimp connection. A wire assembly that includes the crimp connection is associated with a cable harness disposed in a motorized vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: KURT P. SEIFERT, WILLIAM J. PALM, LISA L. FLAUTO, BRUCE J. SERBIN
  • Patent number: 8430700
    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 an opening edge. The opening edge of the recess includes first opening edges that are parallel to each other. The first opening edges are arranged to overlap with each other in the extending direction of the electric wire so that the first opening edges are present over the entire length of all over the plurality of the recesses on the crimping portion in the extending direction of the electric wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Ono, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Shimoda, Takuji Otsuka, Masaaki Tabata, Kenji Okamura, Kazuhiro Aoki, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Takahito Nakashima
  • Patent number: 8425266
    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 an opening edge. The opening edge of the recess includes first opening edges that are parallel to each other. The space between the recesses adjacent to each other in the extending direction of the first opening edge is set narrower than the space between the recesses adjacent to each other in the extending direction of the electric wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems I, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Ono, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Shimoda, Takuji Otsuka, Masaaki Tabata, Kenji Okamura, Kazuhiro Aoki, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Takahito Nakashima
  • Patent number: 8403714
    Abstract: It is aimed not to increase contact resistance between a wire and a wire crimping portion even upon being subjected to a thermal cycle. A gold plating layer is formed on a base metal (20) via a nickel plating layer (21) in a terminal contact portion (11) to be held in contact with a mating terminal. A tin plating layer (23) is formed on the base metal (20) without via the nickel plating layer (21) in a wire crimping portion (12) to be crimped and connected to a core (15) of an insulated wire (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiro Nakata, Michiaki Okamoto, Takuya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20130062117
    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 an opening edge. The opening edge of the recess includes first opening edges that are parallel to each other. The first opening edges are arranged to overlap with each other in the extending direction of the electric wire so that the first opening edges are present over the entire length of all over the plurality of the recesses on the crimping portion in the extending direction of the electric wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Publication number: 20130062118
    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 an opening edge. The opening edge of the recess includes first opening edges that are parallel to each other. The space between the recesses adjacent to each other in the extending direction of the first opening edge is set narrower than the space between the recesses adjacent to each other in the extending direction of the electric wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
  • Publication number: 20130059485
    Abstract: A high-reliability contact includes a termination portion configured to receive a wire. A mating portion is formed integrally with the termination portion. The mating portion has edges. The mating portion is stamped and formed so that the edges are rolled together to form a mating barrel having a longitudinal axis. The mating barrel is configured to receive a corresponding contact. At least one contact finger is formed in the mating barrel. The at least contact finger extends into the mating barrel toward the longitudinal axis to facilitate contacting the corresponding contact. A contact hood is formed at a distal end of the mating portion to facilitate protecting the at least one contact finger when the mating portion is coupled to the corresponding contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: LAWRENCE SE-JUN OH
  • Publication number: 20130052888
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric contact element produced from a solid material, which is embodied as a plug-in contact (2a) or as a socket contact (2b), and which comprises a plug-in section (2) and a connection section (3) for contacting an electric bunched conductor, with the connection section (3) being formed as a crimped connection, and with the connection section (3) being formed as a hollow cylinder (3a) comprising a slot (4) in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas Wolting, Martin Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20130052887
    Abstract: Disclosed is a terminal structure of a wiring harness for automobile use that has a profound anticorrosive effect. A terminal member is fixed to an end portion of a coated electric wire such that a crimping portion that the member includes at its one end is crimped around an outer surface of a coating portion of the wire. A resin member is formed to completely cover at least entire outer surfaces of an exposed region at an end portion of the crimping portion (a region including a fracture cross section and a root edge portion) and a region in the vicinity thereof. The resin member is made mainly of an epoxy resin, and a cured material obtained by curing a material having a viscosity from 1000 to 30000 mPa·s at 25 degrees C., which is measured in accordance with the JIS Z8803.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Inoue, Kazunari Sakura, Hiroshi Sudou, Yukiyasu Sakamoto, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Hisahiro Yasuda, Tetsuya Nakamura, Shigeyuki Tanaka, Tsubasa Nishida, Kazuo Nakashima, Hideki Imamura
  • Publication number: 20130040509
    Abstract: Has an object of providing a crimp terminal, a connection structural body, and a method for producing the crimp terminal, which has a conducting function with certainty, with no galvanic corrosion occurring due to an electric wire and the terminal formed of different metal materials. A crimp terminal 1 includes a box section, and a pressure-bonding section including a wire barrel section and an insulation barrel section, which are provided in this order. The crimp terminal is formed of a metal plate which is formed of a copper alloy having a higher potential than aluminum used to form core wires of an insulated wire which is to be pressure-bonded by the pressure-bonding section. The crimp terminal 1 includes, in at least a part thereof, a resin cover section for covering a surface of the metal plate with a resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicants: FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC., FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Mitose, Yukihiro Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20130040510
    Abstract: A connector includes: a first contact part; a second contact part; and an elastic deformable part provided between the first and second contact parts, the elastic deformable part comprising: at least one rounding part which rounds less than one circle around a phantom line interconnecting a base position of the first contact part and a base position of the second contact part; a connecting part which is extended from one end of the rounding part to the first contact part; and a connecting part which is extended from the other end of the rounding part to the second contact part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Shinichi Ishizuka, Ryosuke Soejima
  • Patent number: 8371884
    Abstract: A device and a method for connecting at least two electric terminals, particularly an electrode terminal and an electric measuring element, the two terminals being connected to each other by clinching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Mazingue-Desailly, Roland Hellwig, Michael Mueller
  • Publication number: 20130035007
    Abstract: Disclosed is a crimping terminal that suppresses as far as possible an increase in contact resistance with an electrical wire even in a severe thermal impact environment. A crimping terminal (10) is formed into a substantial U-shape section with a bowed bottom plate (21). Also, a bead (31) is formed whose in inner surface is made convex (31T) by punching a concave shape from an outer surface of a wall plate, on the wall plate at any position in a range from at least a bottom plate (21) to a conductor swage piece (22). A work hardening portion (E) hardened by crushing at a center portion in a width direction of the bottom plate (21) is also formed. This increases rigidity of a portion from a center of a width direction of the semiconductor crimping portion (12) bottom plate (21) to the semiconductor swage piece (22), so it is possible to suppress as much as is possible an increase in contact resistance with a wire even in severe thermal impact environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masanori Onuma
  • Publication number: 20130012077
    Abstract: There is provided a crimping terminal by which moisture can be prevented from penetrating to a conductor of electric wire even though moisture is adhered to a wire connection portion, thereby preventing the conductor of electric wire from corrosion. In the crimping terminal, a conductor crimping portion of a wire connection portion has a substantially U-shaped cross-section with a bottom plate and a pair of conductor caulking pieces, and a sheath caulking portion has a substantially U-shaped cross-section with a bottom plate and a pair of sheath caulking pieces. The bottom plates 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 the longitudinal direction of electric wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Sato, Shinji Kodama
  • Patent number: 8337263
    Abstract: An insulation displacement connector having two deformable tangs forming a receiving pocket in which a wire may be placed, the deformable tangs adapted to be curled around the wire to create a secure connection that is resistant to disconnection by movement. Also disclosed is a method for creating the secure connection. A solenoid assembly that employs the disclosed insulation displacement connector that reduces the risk of a disconnection is also described. Also disclosed is a device that secures wires to the disclosed insulation displacement connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Inventor: Anthony Freakes
  • Patent number: 8337262
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Ono, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Shimoda, Takuji Otsuka, Masaaki Tabata, Kenji Okamura, Kazuhiro Aoki, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Takahito Nakashima
  • Patent number: 8333624
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal fitting capable of reliably press-bonding a core wire made of aluminum or aluminum alloy. A terminal fitting 3 is made of copper or copper alloy and includes: a bottom wall 34 which is overlapped with a core wire 41 made of aluminum or aluminum alloy; and a pair of crimping pieces 35 which is upright from each corresponding end portion of the bottom wall 34 and is bent inward so that a front end 35a faces the bottom wall 34 and the pair of crimping pieces is press-bonded to the core wire 41. The pair of crimping pieces 35 is bent so that outer surfaces 35b are tightly overlapped with each other, and has a pair of intermeshing portions 38 respectively formed in the outer surfaces 35b in the length direction of the core wire 41 to mesh with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Kakuta
  • Patent number: 8328589
    Abstract: A contact of which the quality of crimping of a crimp portion can be easily and accurately determined. The crimp portion of the contact includes a bottom portion that supports conductors of electrical wires, and two side portions that are continuous with opposite sides of the bottom portion and are bent such that they hold the conductors therein. Three marks are formed in an outer surface of each side portion along a longitudinal direction of the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Kiyoharu Hasebe, Junichi Miyamoto, Kiyohito Koide
  • Publication number: 20120282823
    Abstract: A female type contact is provided for use with an electrical connector. The female type contact includes a body portion and a plurality of flexible beams that extend from the body portion. The flexible beams include a base portion having a first width and a tip portion having a second width that is smaller than the first width of the base portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventors: Michael Glick, Slobadan Pavlovic, Allen Leo Mott, Tulasi Sadras-Ravindra
  • Patent number: 8303354
    Abstract: A wire barrel to be crimped onto an end of an electric wire has a surface on a side to face the electric wire. The surface has a plurality of recesses that extend in a direction that is to cross the axial direction of the electric wire and are separated from each other in the direction that is to cross the axial direction of the electric wire. The wire barrel has a thickness in a range from 0.15 mm to 1 mm before being crimped to the electric wire. Each recess has a depth in a range from 30% to 60% of the thickness of the wire barrel before the wire barrel is crimped onto the electric wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuji Ootsuka, Hiroki Hirai, Junichi Ono, Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Shimoda
  • Patent number: 8303356
    Abstract: A terminal fitting includes a terminal connection part and a crimping part. Paired front-side crimping pieces and a lower plate part constitute a wire barrel portion which contacts core wires exposed outside as a result of removal of coating disposed at an end portion of an electric wire and is crimped so as to surround the core wires. Paired rear-side crimping pieces and the lower plate part constitute an insulation barrel portion which contacts coating at the end portion of the electric wire and is crimped so as to surround the coating. At least one pair of the crimping pieces has a thin portion formed thinner than the lower plate part and contacting the electric wire end when the crimping pieces are crimped. The thin portion is formed at an intermediate portion of each crimping piece except for a peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoru Nishide
  • Patent number: 8303355
    Abstract: Rims of an opening of each recess form a parallelogram, and comprise two first opening rims that are parallel to a first direction and two second opening rims that are parallel to a second direction. The first opening rims of each of the recesses that are aligned along the first direction are arranged on a straight line along the first direction. The second opening rims of each of the recesses that are aligned along the second direction are arranged on a straight line along the second direction. The recesses are formed by pressing a wire barrel with a die where a plurality of protruding parts are formed so as to correspond to the recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Ono, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Shimoda, Takuji Otsuka, Kenji Okamura, Masaaki Tabata
  • Publication number: 20120244759
    Abstract: A terminal fitting (10) includes a terminal main body (21) with a bottom wall (22) on which cores (71) of wires (70) are placed, and two side walls (23) that stand up from opposite lateral sides of the bottom wall (22). A welding portion (25) where the cores (71) are welded to the bottom wall (22) is formed at a front part of the terminal main body (21). A crimping portion (26) is formed at a rear part of the terminal main body (21) and has crimping pieces (27) projecting from upper ends of the side walls (23) for crimped connection to the wires (70). Cutouts (28AF, 28AR) are cut into the upper end of the side wall (23) of the crimping portion (26) at front and rear sides of the front crimping piece (27F) while retaining parts of the side wall (23L) below the cutouts (28AF, 28AR).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Tsuji
  • Patent number: 8251759
    Abstract: A wire with a terminal fitting (10) formed by crimping and cutting a terminal fitting with a carrier in which a terminal fitting (12) projecting forward is coupled to a carrier (C). The wire with the terminal fitting (10) is provided with a crimping portion (30) to be crimped into connection with an end portion of an insulated wire 40 formed by covering a core (42) with a coating (43), a link (13) coupling the crimping portion (30) and the carrier (C), and an escaping portion (35) formed by partly cutting off a rear end part of the crimping portion (30) and enabling a cutting mold (53) for cutting the link portion (13) to be arranged at a position where a front end (53A) of the cutting mold (53) is located before the rear end of the crimping portion (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd
    Inventor: Hideki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 8246393
    Abstract: An electrical connector that can be compressed onto a composite transmission line without causing catastrophic damage to the non-metal/steel core. The electrical connector comprises a sleeve and a compression regulator that limits compression of the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Dean E. Geibel, Bernard C. Crutcher
  • Patent number: 8246390
    Abstract: An integral bonding attachment includes an insulated section of a conductive wire with an exposed, uninsulated section. A sleeve covers the insulated and uninsulated sections of the conductive wire, and the sleeve includes a flattened section encasing at least a portion of the uninsulated wire section to form a generally integral structure with the core of the conductive wire. At least one generally tubular section is positioned at an end of the flattened section to engage the insulated section of the conductive wire. An aperture may pass simultaneously through the inner core and flattened sleeve section for attaching the integral bonding attachment to a structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Tensolite, LLC
    Inventors: David Charles Cecil, Jack Edgar Sutherland
  • Patent number: 8246394
    Abstract: A plurality of recesses are formed on a surface of a wire barrel where an electric wire is provided. In a state before the electric wire is crimped onto the wire, barrel, at least one of sides comprising rims of an opening of each recess of a quadrangular shape is a crossing side crossing at an angle of from 85 degrees to 95 degrees to an extending direction. In a state before the electric wire is crimped onto the wire barrel 16, the crossing sides of a plurality of recesses positioned adjacent to each other in the extending direction are so arranged as to overlap with each other in the extending direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Ono, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Shimoda, Takuji Otsuka, Kenji Okamura, Masaaki Tabata
  • Publication number: 20120208408
    Abstract: A flexing strip (41) is formed on a housing (20). An interference part (63) is formed on a fit-on detector (50). A distinguishing part (46) having a color different from the fit-on detector (50) is formed on the flexing strip (41). The flexing strip (41) interferes with the interference part (63) and deforms while moving the fit-on detector (50) from a wait position to a detection position. The flexing strip (41) is released from an interference state with the interference part (63) and elastically restores to its original state when the fit-on detector (50) has reached the detection position. A position of the distinguishing part (46) relative to the interference part (63) changes before and after a flexing of the flexing strip (41) so that the distinguishing part (46) is exposed and can be seen from a distinguishing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Segawa, Yukihiro Fukatsu, Masayasu Fujii
  • Publication number: 20120208409
    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).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuya Endo
  • Publication number: 20120202394
    Abstract: A terminal fitting (10) includes a wire barrel (12) to be crimped and connected to a core (61) at an end portion of a wire (60). An insulation barrel (13) is located behind the wire barrel (12) and is to be crimped and connected to an insulation coating (62) at the end portion of the wire (60). The inner surface of the insulation barrel (13) is formed with a close-contact portion (18) to be held in close contact with the insulation coating (62) and a recessed groove (19) spaced from the insulation coating (62) and extending over the entire circumference. The recessed groove (19) has an opening (21) that is open at the front end of the insulation barrel (13) and a waterproof material (40) flows into the recessed groove (19) through the opening (21). The waterproof material (40) adheres to the outer surface of the core (61).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 8221171
    Abstract: Provided is a technique of ensuring mechanical strength in a terminal-provided wire and lowering contact resistance between the wire and the crimp terminal, without greatly varying a crimp height of a crimp terminal onto the wire in an axial direction. A crimp terminal according to the invention includes a conductor barrel which is crimped to a conductor of a wire. The conductor barrel has an inner surface which closely contacts the conductor by bending. The inner surface has such a shape a surface thereof which closely contacts a tip end side part of the conductor inwardly projects beyond a surface thereof which closely contacts a base side part of the conductor, thus performing a higher compression of the tip end side part of the conductor than that of the base side part thereof by the bending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Ono, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Shimoda, Takuji Otsuka, Shigeru Ogihara, Akira Ito
  • Publication number: 20120178316
    Abstract: A crimp terminal includes a bottom portion. A pair of conductor press-fastening portions respectively extend from opposite side edges of the bottom portion. A serration is formed in a face of the bottom portion on which a conductor of a wire is to be placed. The serration extends in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the placed conductor. A direction indication mark portion is provided on the face of the bottom portion. The direction indication mark portion is indicative of a direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the serration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kei Sato
  • Patent number: 8210884
    Abstract: An electrical terminal is provided for terminating a wire. The electrical terminal includes an electrical contact and a crimp barrel extending from the electrical contact. The crimp barrel is configured to be crimped around an end of the wire. The crimp barrel includes a base and opposing side walls that extend from the base. The base and the side walls define an opening of the crimp barrel that is configured to receive the end of the wire therein. The side walls extend outwardly from the base to ends. The side walls include base segments that extend from the base and end segments that extend from the base segments and include the ends. A sealing wing extends from the end of at least one of the side walls. The side walls are configured to be folded over when crimped over the end of the wire such that a gap is defined between the end segment and the base segment of at least one of the side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics Corporation, Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Ned Corman, Uwe Blümmel, Helge Schmidt, Charles D. Copper, Raymond Dennis Boyer, David B. Weaver, John Wesley Hall, John M. Myer
  • Patent number: 8212637
    Abstract: An electromagnet switch has a metal contact for a switch terminal that projects from a case and is wired to one end of a coil. A male connector member surrounds an outer periphery of the metal contact. The male connector member is connected to a female connector member that is provided at a tip end of a cable used for supplying electric power to the coil. Such a penetrating hole is formed in a case that reaches the metal contact. A tester terminal can contact the metal contact through the penetrating hole for conducting conductive testing of the electromagnet switch, in a commercial field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Tadahiro Kurasawa
  • Patent number: 8177591
    Abstract: A terminal fitting 10 includes a main body 20 to be coupled to a mating conductor, and a crimp contact section 30 rearward from the main body 20. The crimp contact section 30 is crimped on an end of a core wire 42 in a covered electrical cable 40 so as to surround the end. The core wire 42 includes a plurality of metallic strands 41 and is covered with a sheath 43 to form the covered electrical cable 40. Serrations 34 are provided on a contact surface of the crimp contact section 30 for surrounding the core wire 42. Each serration 34 is a polygonal shaped recess with which the core wire 42 engages upon crimping. Both diagonal corner portions 34C of each serration 34 are rounded. Thus, the whole periphery of an opening edge around the recess penetrates an oxide layer on a core wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Okamura, Masaaki Tabata
  • Patent number: 8177590
    Abstract: A crimp terminal whose crimp state can be easily evaluated and to provide a method of manufacturing a terminal-provided wire comprising the crimp terminal. The crimp terminal includes a pair of conductor barrels which are crimped onto a conductor of an electric wire. The conductor barrel has an outer surface provided with a crimp state indicator for evaluating a crimp level thereof. The indicator may be a mark so shaped that a position of an internal end of an outwardly exposed part thereof is varied in a terminal axial direction corresponding to the crimp level, or include a plurality of marks spaced in a direction perpendicular to the terminal axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Hirai, Junichi Ono, Takuji Otsuka, Hiroki Shimoda
  • Patent number: 8177589
    Abstract: A plurality of recesses are formed on a surface of a wire barrel where an electric wire is provided. In a state before the electric wire is crimped onto the wire, barrel, at least one of sides comprising rims of an opening of each recess of a quadrangular shape is a crossing side crossing at an angle of from 85 degrees to 95 degrees to an extending direction. In a state before the electric wire is crimped onto the wire barrel 16, the crossing sides of a plurality of recesses positioned adjacent to each other in the extending direction are so arranged as to overlap with each other in the extending direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Ono, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Shimoda, Takuji Otsuka, Kenji Okamura, Masaaki Tabata
  • Publication number: 20120115375
    Abstract: A connector terminal which can achieve high mechanical connection strength and stabilized low electrical connection resistance when it is crimped to an aluminum electric wire, and in addition, can suppress electrical contact resistance low when it is fitted to a mating connector terminal is provided. In a connector terminal (1A) having an electrical contact section (10) which is brought into contact and conducted with a mating connector terminal by fitting to the mating connector terminal, and a conductor crimping section (12) which is crimped to the conductor of an electric wire, a metal material which constitutes the terminal uses aluminum or an aluminum alloy as a base material (100), a Zn layer (101) having a thickness in the range from 0.1 ?m to 2.0 ?m by electroless plating and a Cu layer (102) having a thickness in the range from 0.5 ?m to 1.0 ?m by electrolytic plating are formed in sequence on the surface of the base material (100), and an Sn layer (105) having a thickness in the range from 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Kakuta
  • Publication number: 20120094551
    Abstract: An electrical terminal is provided for terminating a wire. The electrical terminal includes an electrical contact and a crimp barrel extending from the electrical contact. The crimp barrel is configured to be crimped around an end of the wire. The crimp barrel includes a base and opposing side walls that extend from the base. The base and the side walls define an opening of the crimp barrel that is configured to receive the end of the wire therein. The side walls extend outwardly from the base to ends. The side walls include base segments that extend from the base and end segments that extend from the base segments and include the ends. A sealing wing extends from the end of at least one of the side walls. The side walls are configured to be folded over when crimped over the end of the wire such that a gap is defined between the end segment and the base segment of at least one of the side walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH, TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ned Corman, Uwe Blümmel, Helge Schmidt, Charles D. Copper, Raymond Dennis Boyer, David B. Weaver, John Wesley Hall, John M. Myer
  • Patent number: 8147281
    Abstract: A crimp terminal 10 for an aluminum electric cable includes: a crimping part 12 which is connected to a core wire 21 of an aluminum electric cable 20 by crimping; and serrations 15 formed in inner surfaces 13a, 14a of this crimping part 12. In the crimp terminal 10 for an aluminum electric cable, the crimping part 12 is formed into an almost U-shape by including a base 13 and paired crimping pieces 14, 14 formed unitarily with the base 13 on two sides of the base 13; the multiple serrations 15 extending in a direction orthogonal to a lengthwise direction of the core wire 21 are continuously formed in the inner surface 13a of the base 13 and inner surfaces 14a of the respective paired crimping pieces 14, 14; and multiple serrations 16 extending in the direction orthogonal to the lengthwise direction of the core wire 21 are formed in a top end 14c side of an outer surface 14b of each of the paired crimping pieces 14, 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Yasumichi Kuwayama, Goro Kuwayama, legal representative
  • Publication number: 20120071031
    Abstract: A crimp contact including a first component that has opposite leading and trailing ends and a central axis that extends therebetween. The first component has a component wall that includes an interior surface and a wall edge. The interior surface defines a contact passage that extends along the central axis. The wall edge defines a passage opening at the trailing end. The crimp contact also includes a second component coupled to the first component. The second component includes a sheet wall that has body and sleeve portions joined together along a wall joint. The body portion is located within the contact passage and extends about the central axis to define a crimping cavity. The sleeve portion is folded over the body portion at the wall joint so that the sleeve and body portions define a radial gap therebetween. The component wall is located within the radial gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: JARED EVAN ROSSMAN
  • Patent number: 8123575
    Abstract: A crimping terminal fitting has a wire barrel (21) to be crimped and connected to core strands (31) of a wire (30). The wire barrel (21) has a base plate (23) continuously extending from a ground terminal (11) in a longitudinal direction. Two core crimping pieces (25) extend from the opposite sides of the base plate (23). A thinned portion (27) is formed at least at a leading end of each core crimping piece (25) and is thinner than the base plate (23).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiko Ukai
  • Patent number: 8092262
    Abstract: An electrical contact includes a base and an eye-of-the needle (EON) pin extending a length outwardly from the base to a tip. The EON pin is configured to be received within an electrical via. The EON pin includes a neck segment that extends outwardly from the base, a tip segment that includes the tip, and a compliant segment that extends from the neck segment to the tip segment. The neck segment has opposite end walls and opposite side walls that extend between the end walls. The end walls are connected to the side walls at corresponding transitional walls that interconnect spaced-apart edges of the corresponding end and side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Todd Frederick, Michael Joseph Vino
  • Patent number: 8079863
    Abstract: An electrical terminal including a first connection section adapted to connect to a first electrical conductor; and a second connection section connected to the first connection section. The second connection section is adapted to removably connect to a mating electrical terminal. The second connection section includes a first lateral side with a first bent section forming an inward facing slot. The second connection section includes an opposite second lateral side with a second bent section which is bent in a direction generally opposite a bend of the first bent section. An angle of the bend of the first bent section is greater than an angle of a bend of the second bent section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: Peter M. Wason
  • Patent number: 8079870
    Abstract: To provide a coaxial connector and an assembling method of the coaxial connector in which an operation efficiency can be enhanced, and also facilities related to the assembling can be simplified. The coaxial connector is assembled through a first step of assembling an insulator assembly, a second step of setting the insulator assembly in an outer conductor terminal through an upper opening portion of the outer conductor terminal from a direction perpendicular to a terminal axis thereof, and a third step of holding an insulator of the insulator assembly by press-crimping a pair of press-crimping pieces for insulator holding and effecting the connection and fixing to a coaxial cable of the insulator assembly by press-crimping a pair of press-crimping pieces for braid connection and a pair of press-crimping pieces for sheath fixation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nakamura, Taishi Morikawa
  • Publication number: 20110297441
    Abstract: A method of fusing cables and a dead end assembly and a cable are provided. A joint assembly for fusing cables and a dead end fusing assembly for fusing a cable and a forge assembly are provided. The method includes cutting back strands of a cable, exposing the core; inserting the core of cables into a core grip; positioning the joint assembly over the core grip within certain marked sections of the cables; wrapping the joint assembly with one wrap of detonation cord; securing a detonator to the detonation cord explosive charge and detonating the detonator, such that the core grip fuses the cables together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: AFL TELECOMMUNICATIONS LLC.
    Inventor: Wayne L. Quesnel
  • Patent number: 8070536
    Abstract: Provided is a technique of enabling high-compression crimping without breaking a crimp terminal while forming a recessed portion promoting a wire crimp portion of the crimp terminal to cut into a conductor in the wire crimp portion. The crimp terminal according to the invention includes a wire crimp portion, which is crimped to a conductor of a wire and includes a first crimp portion crimped to a base side of the conductor and a second crimp portion crimped to a tip end side. A recessed portion for promoting a cutting-in effect is formed in an inner surface of the wire crimp portion. A recessed portion formed in the second crimp portion is divided in a terminal width direction or is shallower than a recessed portion formed in the first crimp portion. Alternatively, the recessed portion is omitted and a recessed portion is formed only in the first crimp portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Ono, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Shimoda, Takuji Otsuka, Shigeru Ogihara, Akira Ito
  • Patent number: 8066537
    Abstract: A probe connector adapted for fastening a cable thereto includes a shell, a plunger and an elastic element. The shell has a barrel and a base shell with an accommodating chamber therein. The base shell is connected with the barrel. A bottom of the base shell extends downward to form a connecting piece of which two opposite side edges oppositely extend outward to form two clipping pieces. The clipping pieces are bent towards each other to clip a core wire of the cable therebetween. The plunger is movably inserted in the barrel and further projects out of the barrel. The elastic element is telescopically assembled in the barrel and the accommodating chamber along the movement direction of the plunger, with one end thereof resisting against a bottom of the plunger and the other end thereof abutting against an inner side of a bottom plate of the base shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jui-Pin Lin
  • Patent number: 8043131
    Abstract: A cable connector includes an electrical contact configured to receive a cable at one end, and an electrical component at another end. The contact can be constructed as a one-piece contact body or a two-piece contact body, and the contact body can include a cable lock that assists in retaining the cable in the contact body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Hung Viet Ngo