Method of manufacturing metal fittings for connection with a joint connector
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorKei Sato
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Abstract
A joint connector includes a metal fittings assembly 110 and a housing 120 for fitting the assembly 110. The assembly 110 consists of two terminals 110A, 110B each having a band-shaped carrier 140 and a plurality of terminal units 130 connected to the carrier 140 through a joint portion 137. In the assembly 110, the terminals 110A, 110B are laid to overlap each other while the terminals 110A, 110B are shifted from each other in a predetermined length in the longitudinal direction of the carriers 140 and the carriers 140 are welded to each other. By bending the joint portions 137 of the upper terminal 110A by a plate thickness of the carrier 140 of the terminal 110B, it is possible to position the adjoining terminal units 130 of the terminals 110A, 110B in an identical plane.
Claims1
A method of manufacturing a metal fittings assembly for a joint connector, comprising:
- providing a pair of terminals each having a band-shaped carrier and a plurality of terminal units connected to the carrier at substantial right angles and arranged in parallel with each other in a longitudinal direction of the carrier;
- wherein each of the terminal units has a connecting piece formed on a leading end portion of the terminal unit so as to project upward and an inserting piece formed on the leading end portion so as to extend downward;
- aligning the pair of terminals in an overlapping relationship;
- bending respective joint portions between the carrier of one of the terminals and the terminal units of that terminal by a thickness of the carrier of the other terminal, thereby positioning the terminal units of the overlapped terminals in an identical plane;
- welding the band-shaped carriers of the terminals together;
- cutting the carriers of the terminals for every predetermined number of terminal units required in accordance with a constitution of a connecting circuit as a product;
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- engaging a connecting piece of a first terminal unit with an inserting piece of a second terminal unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.