Patent ID: 8528204

Claim:
A method for producing a connector terminal by forming a plurality of terminal elements from a single band-shaped metal plate by press punching, wherein the terminal elements are to be attached to a single connector housing and are 2N (where, N=1, 2, 3, . . . ) rod-shaped terminal elements having overall lengths varied in sequence due to lengths of rear leg sections extending from a rear part of the connector housing being different from each other, the method comprising the steps of: forming a plurality of rod bodies and arranging the rod bodies such that the rod bodies are bridged between a first carrier and a second carrier which are disposed along both side edges of the metal plate on the metal plate such that a lengthwise direction of the rod bodies is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the metal plate; arranging a pair of combined terminal elements in series on one rod body in such matter that the 2N terminal elements are arranged such that first N terminal elements in descending order of length are in a first group and a remaining N terminal elements are in a second group, a n-th terminal element (where, n=1, 2, 3, . . . ; and n≦N) from the shortest one and a n-th terminal element from the longest one are selected from among the terminal elements of the first and second groups and are combined one by one; and forming each of the terminal elements from the metal plate by press punching under the arranged condition.