Conductive terminal for a power connector and its manufacturing method
OwnerShi-Zheng Yang, Yajun Wu +1inventors
InventorsShi-Zheng Yang, Yajun Wu, Zhi Cheng
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Abstract
This invention includes a conductive terminal for a power connector and its manufacturing method. The conductive terminal comprises: a base portion, a contact portion and a engagement portion. Said engagement portion is stamped so that it extends from the base portion over the contact portion with a free end thereof forming a engagement end. Said contact portion is a solid column-like body. Locking portions are provided on at least one side of said base portion to hold the conductive terminal in the dielectric housing of the power connector. The conductive terminal is directly formed by stamping without repeated bending, which decreases manufacture steps and reduces manufacture cost.
Claims13
A conductive terminal for a power connector which is mountable in a dielectric housing of the power connector, comprising:
- a base portion, a contact portion and an engagement portion extending from different ends of the base portion;
- said engagement portion stamped to form a structure extending from the base portion over the contact portion with a free end thereof forming an engagement end.
A manufacturing method of a conductive terminal for a power connector, the conductive terminal thereof comprising a base portion, a contact portion and a engagement portion, said method includes the steps of:
- a) feeding and stamping a metal strip to form the locking portion and the base portion;
- b) stamping to form the contact portion and the engagement portion of the conductive terminal;
- c) swaging the contact portion;
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- d) breaking off the stamped conductive terminal from the metal strip.
A manufacturing method of a conductive terminal for a power connector, the conductive terminal thereof comprising a base portion, a contact portion and a engagement portion, said method includes the steps of:
- a) feeding and stamping a nick on the side of the metal strip;
- b) stamping a pilot hole on the metal strip;
- c) stamping a partially punched V shaped groove;
- d) stamping a metal strip to form the locking portion and the base portion;
- e) stamping to form the contact portion and the engagement portion of the conductive terminal;
- f) swaging the contact portion;
- g) stamping a foot portion in a bottom of the base portion of the conductive terminal after swaging the contact portion;
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- h) breaking off the stamped conductive terminal from the metal strip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.