Patent ID: 6612026
Filing Date: 2003-09-02
Classification: H01R,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A process for mounting a plurality of press-connecting terminals with electric wires into a connector housing, said connector housing having a front portion and a back terminal inserting portion, comprising:individually loading each of a predetermined number of a plurality of said terminals into a respective one of a predetermined number of cavities in a terminal-connecting jig; then connecting respective electric wires to respective terminals in the terminal-connecting jig; then removing all of the terminals, with the electric wires connected thereto, from the terminal-connecting jig and inserting the terminals with electric wires connected thereto into a terminal inserting jig, wherein the terminals with electric wires connected thereto are removed from the terminal-connecting jig and inserted into the terminal inserting jig in a first, upward, direction; and subsequently removing the terminals with electric wires connected thereto from the terminal inserting jig and inserting the terminals with the electric wires connected thereto into cavities of the connector housing from the back terminal inserting portion of the connector housing, wherein the terminals with electric wires connected thereto are removed from the terminal inserting jig and inserted into cavities of the connector in a second direction substantially axial with axes of the wires.