Patent ID: 9276368
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H01R,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A tool for crimping a cable terminal together with a connector, the cable terminal including a plurality of wires, and the connector including a plurality of terminals; the plurality of wires of the cable terminal being introduced one by one into the plurality of terminals of the connector; the tool comprising: a first arm which defines a seat in which the connector is accommodated in the working position; a second, compression, arm suitable for exerting a uniform compression force on the connector; the second, compression, arm including a pressing profile at one end thereof, which, in turn, comprises two rotation pins which project laterally outwards from the pressing profile, and penetrate into corresponding holes in a branch of the first arm to keep the second, compression, arm joined to the first arm, the rotation pins forming a rotation shaft for the second, compression, arm; a single horizontal plane extending through the rotation shaft and the pressing profile in a moving direction of the connector; the pressing profile having a curved shape for exerting the uniform compression force on the connector while remaining in the single horizontal plane of the connector throughout an entire rotation of the second, compression, arm to crimp the cable terminal and the connector together, the cable terminal and the connector being removable from the seat of the first arm of the tool as one unit.