Patent ID: 8747139
Filing Date: 2014-06-10
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An auxiliary fitting for use with a laminate terminal fitting, the laminate terminal fitting having opposite upper and lower surfaces spaced apart by a selected thickness and including a wire connecting portion configured for connection to a wire and an assembling portion extending from the wire connecting portion, the assembling portion having placing panels and an insertion hole between the placing panels for receiving a fastening device, interlocking portions at a periphery of the insertion hole and being shifted up relative to the placing panels of the laminate terminal fitting by a distance equal to the selected thickness to define at least one recess that is engageable with interlocking portions of another laminate terminal fitting, the auxiliary fitting being engageable with the laminate terminal fitting when the laminate terminal fitting is not engaged with another laminate terminal fitting, the auxiliary fitting having opposite upper and lower surfaces spaced apart by a thickness equal to the selected thickness of the laminate terminal fitting and comprising: auxiliary inserting portions configured to be inserted into the recess of the laminate terminal fitting so that the upper surface of the auxiliary fitting at the auxiliary inserting portions is in contact with the lower surface of the laminate terminal fitting at the interlocking portions and so that the lower surfaces of auxiliary fitting at the auxiliary inserting portions are coplanar with lower surfaces of the laminate terminal fitting at the placing panels; and auxiliary placing portions shifted up from the auxiliary inserting portions by the selected thickness of the laminate terminal fitting and arranged on the upper surface of the laminate terminal fitting at the placing panels at the periphery of the insertion hole so that the upper surface of the auxiliary fitting at the auxiliary placing portions is coplanar with the upper surface of the laminate terminal fitting at the interlocking portions, the auxiliary fitting having no wire connecting portion.