Method for removing shield foil and shield foil removing device

A method for removing a shield foil at a terminal of a shielded electric wire including two twisted wire cores, the shield foil surrounding an outer side of the two wire cores, and an insulating sheath covering an outer side of the shield foil, the method comprising:

• removing the insulating sheath at the terminal of the shielded electric wire to expose the shield foil;
• untwisting the two wire cores from outside of the shield foil so that the two wire cores are parallel to each other from a root to a tip end of the exposed shield foil;
• compressing the shield foil by accommodating the two wire cores surrounded by the shield foil in a space having a rectangular cross section orthogonal to an electric wire longitudinal direction, which is formed by closing an opening and closing chuck, in such a direction that a longitudinal direction of the rectangular space and an arrangement direction of the two wire cores in a cross section coincide with each other, compressing the shield foil from outside in a direction orthogonal to the arrangement direction of the two wire cores in the cross section by reducing the rectangular space, and bringing the shield foil into close contact with outer peripheral surfaces of the two wire cores in a direction orthogonal to the arrangement direction of the two wire cores in the cross section to secure a gap continuous in a longitudinal direction of the shielded electric wire between both of outer peripheral curved surfaces adjacent to each other of the two wire cores and the shield foil;
• abutting a cutting edge of a cutter on the shield foil from the outside at a position of the gap to make a slit in the shield foil along a longitudinal direction of the two wire cores;
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• peeling the shield foil with the slit from the two wire cores.