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US 8,616,925 B2Granted
Multi-contact terminal fitting
AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
InventorsYutaka Kobayashi, Hikaru Ito
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Abstract
A multi-contact terminal fitting (T) has a plurality of resilient contact pieces (40) that extend from a rectangular tubular base (25) and can be brought into contact with an outer peripheral surface of a flat plate-shaped tab (11). The resilient contact pieces (40) extending from parts of the base (25) that have relatively high rigidity are narrow and those extending from less rigid parts of the base (25) are wider.
Claims13
A multi-contact terminal fitting, comprising:
- a base with at least one first part having high rigidity and at least one second part having low rigidity;
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- first and second resilient contact pieces independently cantilevered from the first and second parts of the base respectively and being configured to be brought into contact with an outer peripheral surface of a tab of a mating terminal fitting, the first resilient contact pieces being narrower than the second resilient contact pieces by an amount to achieve a sufficiently lower rigidity for the first resilient contact pieces as compared to the second resilient contact pieces to offset the high rigidity of the first part of the base so that the first and second resilient contact pieces exert substantially equal contact pressures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.