Terminal connecting method and terminal
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsShinya WARASHINA, Tomohiro KAKO
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Abstract
A terminal connecting method includes setting a conductor having a plurality of strands on an upper surface of a bottom portion of an electric wire crimping part of a terminal, caulking the conductor in a manner to cover the conductor, and thereby crimping the conductor by a caulking portion and a connecting caulking portion extended from the bottom portion, and rotating and pressing a friction stir tool into a stir welding area in a part in which the conductor is crimped by the connecting caulking portion, and performing friction stir welding, after caulking and crimping.
Claims6
A terminal connecting method comprising:
- setting a conductor having a plurality of strands on an upper surface of a bottom portion of an electric wire crimping part of a terminal;
- caulking the conductor in a manner to cover the conductor, and thereby crimping the conductor by a caulking portion and a connecting caulking portion extended from the bottom portion;
- and
- rotating and pressing a friction stir tool into a stir welding area in a part in which the conductor is crimped by the connecting caulking portion, and performing friction stir welding, after caulking and crimping.
A terminal comprising:
- a bottom portion on which a conductor having a plurality of strands is set;
- and
- a conductor caulking portion and a connecting caulking portion extended from the bottom portion and respectively caulked in a manner to cover the conductor so as to crimp the conductor,
- wherein the conductor caulking portion in which the conductor is crimped, includes a stir welding area into which a friction stir tool is rotated and pressed and in which friction stir welding is performed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.