Patent ID: 8105121
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A ground terminal fitting designed to be fixed to a common ground member together with a second ground terminal fitting in a mutually superimposed manner, comprising: an annular-shaped terminal body formed with a through-hole for allowing the ground member to penetrate therethrough; a cable-fastening section having a bottom wall, and a pair of barrel-shaped walls each rising from the bottom wall, the cable-fastening section being adapted to be fastened to an end of an electric cable based on plastic deformation of the pair of barrel-shaped walls; a clamping section having a rising portion rising from an outer peripheral edge of the terminal body in a direction opposite to that of the barrel-shaped walls of the cable-fastening section, and a distal end portion extending from the rising portion inwardly along the terminal body; and a clampable section formed along the outer peripheral edge to be located adjacent to the clamping section in a circumferential direction of the terminal body, wherein the clamping section is adapted to clamp, when the ground terminal fitting is superimposed on the second ground terminal fitting, a clampable section of the second ground terminal fitting to prevent a relative displacement between the superimposed ground terminal fittings, and the distal end portion of the clamping section is adapted to touch the ground member, when the ground member is set to penetrate through the through-hole, to prevent the ground terminal fitting having the clamping section from being rotated with respect to the ground member.