Patent ID: 8723040

Claim:
A terminal structure for in-vehicle wire harness comprising: a coated wire formed by coating a plurality of bare wire conductors with a coating part, said plurality of bare wire conductors having at a terminal section a wire exposed part in which a part of said plurality of bare wire conductors is exposed; a terminal fitting fixed to said coated wire, the said terminal fitting having first and second swaged parts that are formed on one end, said first swaged part swaging along an outer circumference of said coating part of said coated wire in the vicinity of said wire exposed part, said second swaged part swaging along an outer circumference of said bare wire conductors said terminal fitting being fixed to said coated wire by said first and second swaged parts; and a molding part formed so as to coat the entire outer circumference of only exposed end region of said first swaged part and its adjacent region and coat an exposed end region of said second swaged part and its adjacent region wherein said terminal fitting has a plated region formed by plating a surface of said terminal fitting and each of said exposed end regions and said adjacent regions of said first and second swaged parts includes a non-plated region that is not subjected to plating.