Patent ID: 8819925

Claim:
A terminal crimping apparatus having a left and right immediately adjacent sides in a transverse direction, comprising: a lower die configured to receive a bottom plate of a conductor crimping portion of a terminal, the conductor crimping portion being made up of the bottom plate and a pair of left and right crimping pieces, corresponding with the left side and the right side respectively, which rise from side edges of the bottom plate which face each other in the transverse direction; an upper die being disposed above the lower die and configured to press the crimping pieces of the conductor crimping portion between the lower die and itself, the upper die having two arch-shaped crimping portions, aligned in and facing each other in the transverse direction and sharing a common point of intersection, each having an arc-like surface and formed at a portion thereof which faces the lower die so as to bend inwards the pair of left and right crimping pieces, wherein the bottom plate of the conductor crimping portion of the terminal is configured to be placed on the lower die, a distal end portion of a conductor of an electric wire is configured to be placed on the bottom plate, and in this state, the upper die is configured to be relatively pressed towards the lower die so as to round inwards the pair of left and right crimping pieces so that the crimping pieces are pressure-connected to the conductor of the electric wire; and a detection device having a detecting portion located on each of the left side and the right side respectively configured to detect a transversely-unbalanced load applied to the upper and lower dies in a crimping process in which the upper die is configured to be relatively pressed towards the lower die so that the pair of left and right crimping pieces are crimped for pressure connection to the conductor of the electric wire, wherein contact surface pressure sensors are disposed as the detecting portions in two positions, which are situated between an outer surface of the upper die and an inner surface of a support member which supports the upper die and which are transversely-symmetrical.