Patent ID: 7644541
Filing Date: 2010-01-12
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A terminal for enameled electric wires, of the type constituted by a plate-like body which forms a connecting fork with tabs which cantilever inward on a same plane of arrangement as the plate-like body, said tabs facing each other so as to form a self-centering tapered opening for guiding insertion of an electric wire with insulating enameling, said wire being adapted to be locked between ends of tips of said tabs and an abutment formed on said plate-like body proximate to said ends, with an axis which lies transversely to an arrangement of the plate-like body, said tips forming a cut-trough slot whose transverse dimensions are smaller than a diameter of the enameled wire, so as to cut through at least an insulating layer of the wire during its passage between them and provide electrical contact, wherein at least one of facing edges of said cut-through tips has a serrated portion in order to scrape and remove a layer of enamel from a surface of the enameled electric wire, the terminal further comprising a serrated portion for each of the facing edges of the cut-through tips, and said serrated portion being provided with grooves which form through hollows which affect the tips through their entire thickness.