Patent ID: 7509732

Claim:
A crimping apparatus for positioning a conductor of a flat circuit on a bottom wall of an electrical connection portion of a terminal and for crimping the terminal by a crimping piece raised from the bottom wall to press-fit the conductor to the terminal, the crimping apparatus comprising: pressing means for pressing the conductor positioned on the bottom wall against the bottom wall; and crimping means for crimping the crimping piece with the conductor being pressed on the bottom wall by the pressing means, wherein the conductor is covered with insulating material except for at least one end portion and is bent along the bottom wall at an uninsulated end portion so that the uninsulated end portion closely contacts the bottom wall when pressed by the pressing means, and wherein the crimping means has a pair of dies coming close to and apart from each other to pinch and crimp the crimping piece, and the pressing means has a plurality of stopping bars, each bar passing through a through hole defined in one die and retractively extending toward the other die, and the plurality of the stopping bars are disposed parallel to each other across the width of the terminal.