Patent ID: 9570870
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H01R,H02G,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method for producing a terminal-equipped wire in which a crimping portion of a terminal is crimped to an exposed core part of a wire that extends forward from a coating of the wire to a front end of the wire, the crimping portion having opposite front and rear ends, the method comprising the steps of: a) arranging the exposed core part in the crimping portion so that the rear end of the core crimping portion is spaced forward of the coating and so that the front end of the crimping portion is spaced rearward of the front end of the wire; b) sandwiching a rear part of the crimping portion between a lower die surface of a lower die and concave upper die surface of an upper die for crimping the rear part of the crimping portion to the exposed core part; and c) pressing, from above, a front end part of the crimping portion protruding forward from the concave upper die surface, the pressing being carried out using a pressing member having a planar terminal pressing surface aligned orthogonal to a pressing direction and offset farther from the lower die surface than a deepest part of the concave upper die surface in a direction opposite to a pressing direction, and with the terminal pressing member not having a wall surface area extending along a moving direction of the terminal pressing member.