Patent ID: 8430700

Claim:
A terminal connector including a crimping portion configured to be crimped onto a core wire exposed from an electric wire in a binding manner, the electric wire including the core wire including aluminium or aluminium alloy, the terminal connecter comprising: in a state where the crimping portion is crimped onto the core wire, the crimping portion has a surface to be applied to the core wire, the surface having a plurality of recesses formed therein, each recess having an opening edge, the opening edge of the recess including a pair of first opening edges, the first opening edges being parallel to each other, the recesses being spaced in an extending direction of the first opening edges and being spaced in an extending direction of the electric wire; each of the first opening edges has an angle from 85 deg. to 95 deg. to the extending direction of the electric wire; and wherein the first opening edges are arranged to overlap with each other in the extending direction of the electric wire so that the first opening edges are present over the entire length of all over the plurality of the recesses on the crimping portion in the extending direction of the electric wire.