Patent ID: 7748108

Claim:
A crimping tool to crimp a contact onto the end of a wire, said wire end including a stripped part where a conductor core of the wire is exposed, and an insulated part where the conductor core is covered by an insulating jacket, said contact including a hole coaxial to the longitudinal axis of said contact configured to receive both the stripped part and the insulated part of the wire end, said crimping tool comprising: a first tier to crimp a first part of said contact onto the conductor core of the wire; a second tier to crimp a second part of said contact onto the insulating jacket of the wire; and means for actuating said first and second tiers in substantially simultaneous manner; wherein: said first and second tiers comprise crimping components configured to be moved in relation to the contact to be crimped, during crimping; at least one of said first and second tiers comprises a cam cooperating with the crimping components of the tier under consideration and causing these crimping components to move and crimp the contact, during crimping; and at least one rotating element is arranged between a respective crimping component and said cam, the rotating element being movable between at least two positions with respect to the respective crimping component so that when the rotating element is in contact both with the crimping component and with said cam, a distance between said cam and one end of the respective crimping component configured to touch said contact during crimping, is different in said at least two positions.