Method of forming connector press-connecting terminal

A method of forming a connector press-connecting terminal including a pair of opposed press-connecting blades formed respectively on opposite right and left side wall plates thereof formed by a metal sheet, said press-connecting blades being adapted to be electrically press-connected to a connection end portion of a cable in a gripping manner;

• said method comprising the steps of:
• forming cuts respectively in press-connecting blade-forming portions of said flat metal sheet, which has been beforehand plated with an electrically-conductive material;
• applying a plurality of drawing operations to said press-connecting blade-forming portion at each of said cut portions sequentially from a proximal end portion of said press-connecting blade to a distal end portion thereof, to form said press-connecting blade of a bent shape;
• and
• press-bending the metal sheet along two longitudinal lines, passing respectively through said cut portions, so that said opposite right and left side wall plates, having said opposed press-connecting blades, respectively, are formed upright respectively at opposite side edges of a bottom wall plate of said terminal,
• wherein said metal sheet is cut obliquely to a plane thereof so that an upper end of said press-connecting blade, formed on each of said opposite right and left side wall plates, includes a slanting surface slanting inwardly downwardly relative to said bottom wall plate of said terminal.