Patent ID: 7784176

Claim:
A crimping apparatus, comprising: an anvil for supporting a metal terminal including a base plate portion for mounting an electric wire thereon and a pair of crimping piece portions extending upwardly respectively from opposite side edges of the base plate portion; and a crimper which includes a groove portion being opposed to a supporting portion of the anvil, wherein an inner surface of the groove portion of the crimper and a terminal support face of the supporting portion of the anvil cooperate to press the crimping piece portions for crimping the crimping piece portions to the electric wire mounted on the metal terminal; wherein a width of the groove portion of the crimper is not more than 1.0 mm; wherein the terminal support surface of the anvil is formed into a concavely curved surface in which a depth of the concavely curved surface is not smaller than 0.06 mm and is not larger than 0.17 mm in a cross-section of the anvil perpendicular to an axis direction of the electric wire, and the pair of crimping piece portions are crimped to the electric wire made of a copper alloy and having a cross-sectional area of 0.08 mm 2 to 0.13 mm 2 .