Board terminal and method of producing same

Abstract

Board terminals 12, each including a tapering insertion portion 13 for insertion into a through hole in a board, a soldering portion 14 to be soldered to the board, and a connection portion 15 for connection to a mating terminal, are produced from a square wire 11, the insertion portion, the soldering portion and the connection portion being continuously arranged in this order in a direction of a length of the board terminal. The square wire 11 has a width larger than a thickness thereof. The insertion portion 13 is formed by pressing the square wire, and the soldering portion 14 is formed by cutting or pressing widthwise opposite side portions of that portion of the square wire extending from the insertion portion 13, the soldering portion having a width smaller than the width of the square wire. Those portions, removed from the square wire by cutting or pressing, are very small, and generally the whole of the square wire can be formed into the board terminal, and therefore a loss of the material is reduced.

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