Patent ID: 8375552
Filing Date: 2013-02-19
Classification: H01C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of crimping a load-bearing member and an end fitting together, comprising: providing an end-fitting having at least one aperture defined by a wall displaced from a center of a cross-section of the end fitting; inserting a load-bearing member into the aperture in the end fitting; advancing at least one deformation tool to non-uniformly deform a perimeter of the end fitting; and deforming the wall of the aperture into gripping engagement with the load-bearing member without exceeding a crimp threshold at which deformation to the load bearing member occurs; wherein the non-uniform deformation of the perimeter of the end fitting over a predetermined length thereof varies in dependence on a distance of the perimeter from a diagonal mid-point of the at least one aperture along the predetermined length.