Patent ID: 8496504

Claim:
A crimp terminal designed to be crimped onto an end portion of an electric wire having a conductor exposed in the end portion, comprising: an electric contact section to be fitted with a counterpart terminal to be electrically connected thereto, the electric contact section including an electrical contact surface region where the electric contact section is to make contact with a counterpart terminal; and an electric-wire crimp section to be crimped onto the end portion, the electric-wire crimp section including a crimp surface region where the electric-wire crimp section is to make contact with the end portion of the electric wire, the crimp terminal being formed of a metal plate which has a copper-containing plate body and a tin-plating layer covering at least a part of a surface of the plate body, the whole of the crimp surface region of the tin-plating layer having a smaller thickness than a thickness of the tin-plating layer in the whole of the electrical contact surface region, the electrical contact surface region being covered with two tin-plating layers and the crimp surface region being covered with one tin-plating layer.