Flat circuit body with terminals, method of manufacturing the same, die system for manufacturing the same and manufacturing apparatus for the same
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorHideto Kumakura
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Abstract
Providing a method of manufacturing a flat circuit body with terminals with small number of steps of process, a terminal pressure welding apparatus includes a pair of dies having respectively a recess, in which claws of a piercing terminal penetrating through a conductive area of a flat circuit body. The dies are slid in a direction intersecting to a direction of the claw piercing in the flat circuit body by cylinders as a slide unit. Thereby, the claws received in the recess abuts seriously and gradually on a second curved surface and a first curved surface provided in the recess so as to be bent smoothly and fixed on the flat circuit body.
Claims10
A method of manufacturing a flat circuit body with terminals, which includes the flat circuit body having a flat conductive area and a conductive metal terminal having a claw to pierce in the flat conductive area of the flat circuit body and to be bent, comprising the steps of:
- making said claw pierce in the conductive area of the flat circuit body;
- placing the claw piercing in the conductive area into a recess of a die, which can move freely along a direction intersecting to a direction of making the claw pierce in the conductive area;
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- sliding said die in the direction intersecting to the direction of making the claw pierce in the conductive area for bending said claw.
A die system for manufacturing a flat circuit body with terminals, which includes the flat circuit body having a flat conductive area and conductive metal terminals having a claw to pierce in the flat conductive area of the flat circuit body and to be bent, comprising a pair of dies having respectively a recess denting from a surface, on which said flat circuit body is piled, for receiving said claw piercing in the flat conductive area of the flat circuit body within the recess, wherein said pair of dies can move freely along a direction intersecting to a direction of making the claw pierce in the conductive area.
A flat circuit body with terminals comprising:
- a flat circuit body having a flat conductive area;
- and
- a conductive metal terminal having a claw to pierce in the flat conductive area of the flat circuit body and to be bent,
- wherein the claw piercing in the conductive area of the flat circuit body, which penetrates into a recess of a die freely movable in a direction intersecting to a direction of making the claw pierce in the conductive area, is bent by sliding the die in the direction intersecting to the direction of making the claw pierce in the conductive area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.