Patent ID: 8177591

Claim:
A terminal fitting comprising: a connecting section to be coupled to a mating conductor; a crimp contact section to be crimped on an end of a core wire in a covered electrical cable so as to surround said end, said crimp contact section being located in a rearward position from said connecting section, said core wire including a plurality of metallic strands and being covered with a sheath to form said covered electrical cable; and a plurality of depressions provided on a contact surface of said crimp contact section for surrounding said core wire, each of said depressions being formed into a polygonal shaped recess with which said core wire engages upon crimping, each of the polygonal shaped recesses having at least three substantially straight portions intersecting at least at three corner portions, at least a first of the straight portions of each said depression being aligned to a second of the straight portions of the respective depression at an acute angle, and the first and the second straight portions of each said depression intersecting one another at a corner portion that is rounded.