Patent ID: 8303354
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A terminal connector comprising: a crimping portion constructed from a metal plate and to be crimped onto an end of an electric wire, wherein: the crimping portion has a surface on a side to face the electric wire, the surface having a plurality of recesses extending in a direction that is to cross an axial direction of the electric wire and separated from each other in the direction that is to cross the axial direction of the electric wire; the recesses are each formed in a rectangular shape; the crimping portion has a thickness in a range from 0.15 mm to 1 mm before being crimped onto the electric wire; each of the recesses has a depth in a rage from 30% to 60% of the thickness of the crimping portion before the crimping portion is crimped onto the electric wire; and the recesses adjacent to each other in a direction corresponding to the axial direction of the electric wire are shifted from each other in the direction that is to cross the direction corresponding to the axial direction of the electric wire.