Patent ID: 9748721
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H01B,H01R,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method of fabricating connector terminals, which method comprises: (a) providing a single electrically conductive metal sheet including a plurality of pre-terminals, and a plurality of carriers connecting adjacent pre-terminals to each other, each of said pre-terminals having at one end thereof in a length-wise direction thereof an elastically deformable contact portion, and at the other end in said length-wise direction a first area, a pitch between adjacent contact portions being unequal to a pitch between adjacent first areas; (b) folding each of said first areas around a line extending in a length-wise direction thereof to thereby form a male tab; and (c) removing said connectors out of said metal sheet to turn said pre-terminals into terminals, wherein said first areas situated adjacent to each other being folded in said step (b) in opposite directions, said first areas being simultaneously folded in said step (b), said step (a) being carried out by pressing said electrically conductive metal sheet.