Patent ID: 6631560
Filing Date: 2003-10-14
Classification: H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of forming a connector press-connecting terminal including a pair of opposed press-connecting blades formed respectively on opposite right and left side wall plates thereof formed by a metal sheet, said press-connecting blades being adapted to be electrically press-connected to a connection end portion of a cable in a gripping manner;said method comprising the steps of: forming cuts respectively in press-connecting blade-forming portions of said metal sheet, which has been beforehand plated with an electrically-conductive material; applying a plurality of drawing operations to said press-connecting blade-forming portion at each of said cut portions sequentially from a proximal end portion of said press-connecting blade to a distal end portion thereof, such that a second drawing operation and any subsequent drawing operations each act on a portion of said press-connecting blade that is farther away from a plane of said sheet metal than a portion acted on by a dircectly preceding drawing operation, to form said press-connecting blade of a bent shape; and press-bending the metal sheet along two longitudinal lines, passing respectively through said cut portions, so that said opposite right and left side wall plates, having said opposed press-connecting blades, respectively, are formed upright respectively at opposite side edges of a bottom wall plate of said terminal.