Patent ID: 7993170

Claim:
A terminal fitting fixed to an end of an insulated wire together with a resilient plug for insertion into a cavity of a housing and retained by a retainer mountable to project into the cavity, the terminal fitting having opposite front and rear ends and comprising: a terminal main body at the front end of the terminal fitting and having an engageable portion engageable with the retainer, a coupling portion, a wire barrel, an insulation barrel and a resilient plug barrel successively arranged behind the terminal main body, the wire barrel being crimped into connection with an end of a core of the wire, the wire barrel and the insulation barrel having bottom plates arranged at a substantially common height, the insulation barrel having first and second barrel pieces standing up from lateral edges of the bottom plate of the terminal fitting and being crimped into connection with an insulating coating of the wire at positions for urging the insulated wire toward the bottom plate and the resilient plug barrel being crimped into connection with the resilient plug mounted on an outer circumferential surface of the insulating coating, the coupling portion standing up from opposite lateral edges of the bottom plate and defining a maximum height; a front end portion of the wire barrel being crimped substantially flat to suppress a bend-up of an end of the core and a height of the crimped wire barrel being less than the maximum height of the coupling portion; and a front end portion of the wire barrel being insertable to a position substantially facing a projecting end of the retainer when the terminal fitting is inserted to a proper position in the cavity.