Terminal-equipped electric wire
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorTakahiro Yudate
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Abstract
To include: an electric wire including a core wire that includes an element wire bundle and a sheath that covers the core wire over a circumferential direction and including a core wire exposed portion in which a part of the core wire is exposed over the circumferential direction; and a terminal fitting that includes a core wire connection portion including a flat face on which the core wire exposed portion is placed, and in which a bonding portion of the core wire exposed portion is ultrasonically bonded to the flat face of a bonded portion of the core wire connection portion.
Claims4
A terminal-equipped electric wire comprising:
- an electric wire including a core wire that includes an element wire bundle and a sheath that covers the core wire over a circumferential direction, the electric wire including a core wire exposed portion in which a part of the core wire is exposed over the circumferential direction;
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- a terminal fitting including a core wire connection portion that includes a flat face on which the core wire exposed portion is placed, a bonding portion of the core wire exposed portion being ultrasonically bonded to the flat face of a bonded portion of the core wire connection portion,
- wherein the core wire exposed portion includes a compressed recess between the bonding portion and an end face of the sheath, the compressed recess being compressed toward the flat face of the core wire connection portion and being recessed to a position lower than a height of the bonding portion from the flat face of the core wire connection portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.