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US 5,664,326 AGranted
Method of manufacturing metal terminal
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorHideki Ohsumi
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Abstract
In a terminal receiving chamber made of a connector housing of synthetic resin, the metal terminal is retained by the flexible holding strip disposed in the connector housing, the retaining portion of the metal terminal abutting against a retaining projection of the flexible holding strip includes an end part of a laminated plate portion formed by folding a rolling thin plate portion.
Claims4
A method of manufacturing a metal terminal, comprising the steps of:
- punching a metal plate to form a terminal blank;
- rolling a predetermined portion of the terminal blank so as to reduce the thickness of said predetermined portion and thereby form a thin plate portion;
- folding the thin plate portion to form a laminated plate portion;
- and
- bending the terminal blank to form said terminal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.