Patent ID: 7824236

Claim:
A connecting terminal, comprising: a male terminal having a wire crimp portion to which an end of a wire is crimped; a female terminal having a wire crimp portion to which an end of a wire is crimped; and a joint portion where the male and female terminals are joined to each other, wherein a contact resistance value of the whole connecting terminal is a sum of a contact resistance value in the wire crimp portion of the male terminal, a contact resistance value in the wire crimp portion of the female terminal and a contact resistance value in the joint portion, and a length of a contact portion is a sum of a length of the wire crimp portion of the male terminal, a length of the wire crimp portion of the female terminal and a length of the joint portion, wherein a normalized contact resistance value R ter is derived by dividing the contact resistance value of the whole connecting terminal by the length of the contact portion; and wherein a relationship of a wire resistance value R wire of the wire, a current value I and a permissive increase in temperature ΔT to the normalized contact resistance value R ter of the connecting terminal is expressed by R ter <ΔT/(752×I 2 )−3.7×R wire , the permissive increase in temperature ΔT representing a temperature increase up to a temperature standard of the connecting terminal.