Patent ID: 7465606

Claim:
A method of connecting stranded wire to a lead-frame body, the method including the steps of: providing a stranded wire, ensuring that insulation is stripped from an end of the stranded wire and ensuring that stripped end of the stranded wire is tinned with solder, providing an electrically conductive lead-frame connection structure associated with the lead-frame body, inserting the end of the stranded wire into the lead-frame connection structure so that the lead-frame connection structure substantially surrounds the wire end, injecting solder flux so as to be substantially about a portion of the end of the stranded wire, placing the lead-frame connection structure in contact with a bottom resistance welding electrode or a top resistance welding electrode, and moving the electrode that is not presently in contact with the lead-frame connection structure so as to contact the lead-frame connection structure to resistance weld the wire end to the lead-frame connection structure and thereby define a solder crimp connection of the wire end and the lead-frame connection structure.