Connection structure and connection method
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsTakayoshi Iwanami, Yuta Muyari
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Abstract
A connection structure includes: a first wire; a second wire having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the first wire; a connection member configured to connect the first wire and the second wire, wherein a distal end portion of the first wire is inserted from an opening portion at one end of the connection member to be crimped, and a proximal end portion of the second wire is inserted from an opening portion at another end of the connection member to be crimped, the opening portion at the other end having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the opening portion at the one end.
Claims7
A method of manufacturing a connection structure, the method comprising:
- inserting a distal end portion of a first wire into a first opening at a first end of a connection member to be crimped;
- reducing a diameter of a hollow portion including a second opening at a second end of the connection member;
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- after reducing the diameter of the hollow portion including the second opening at the second end of the connection member, inserting a proximal end portion of a second wire into the second opening at the second end of the connection member to be crimped, the second wire having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the first wire.
A method of manufacturing a connection structure, the method comprising:
- inserting a distal end portion of a first wire into a first portion of a connection member through a first opening in a first end of the connection member;
- crimping the first portion of the connection member to the distal end portion of the first wire inserted therein;
- after crimping the first portion of the connection member, reducing a diameter of a second portion of the connection member, the second portion having a second opening in a second end of the connection member;
- after reducing the diameter of the second portion of the connection member, inserting a proximal end portion of a second wire into the second portion through a second opening in a second end of the connection member, the second wire having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the first wire;
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- crimping the second portion of the connection member to the proximal end portion of the second wire inserted therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.