Printed board and bus bar assembly
AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
InventorsMasahiro TAGANO, Teruyuki KITAHARA
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Abstract
A printed board includes a printed board body having a first side, a second side opposing the first side, and a through-hole; a printed conductor disposed on the first side of the printed board body; and a bus bar disposed on the second side of the printed board body, the bus bar including a terminal that extends through the through-hole. The terminal includes a plurality of branched terminal portions at a position corresponding to an interior of the through-hole, and at least one of the branched terminal portions is bent and attached to the printed conductor.
Claims4
A method of forming a printed board comprising:
- bonding a bonder on a through-hole in a printed board body;
- extending a terminal with a first branched portion and a second branched portion through the through-hole in the printed board body;
- bending the first branched portion and/or the second branched portion so as to form an acute angle with respect to a surface of the printed board body;
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- reheating the bonder so that the bonder melts and flows into the through-holes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.