Terminal-equipped electric wire, wiring harness, terminal, terminal crimper, and method for producing terminal-equipped electric wire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12316059-B2
Application number	US-202218054342-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 10, 2022
Priority date	May 27, 2020
Publication date	May 27, 2025
Grant date	May 27, 2025

Abstract

A terminal-equipped electric wire includes a terminal and a coated conductive wire, which are electrically connected to each other. A crimp part of the terminal is crimped to the coated conductive wire, and has a conductive wire crimp part, which is crimped to a conductive wire that is exposed from a coating on the front-end side of the coated conductive wire, and a coating crimp part, which is crimped to the coating of the coated conductive wire. On the front-end side (terminal body side) of the conductive wire crimp part, an electric wire holding part, which applies a relatively strong holding force on the conductive wire, is provided, On the rear-end side (coating crimp part side) of the conductive wire crimp part, a conductive part for achieving conduction with the conductive wire is formed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A terminal-equipped electric wire in which a coated conductive wire and a terminal are electrically connected with each other, the terminal-equipped electric wire comprising:
a conductive wire crimp part at which a conductive wire exposed from a coating at a tip end of the coated conductive wire is crimped; and
a coating crimp part at which the coating of the coated conductive wire is crimped, wherein
the conductive wire crimp part includes an electric wire holding part for holding the conductive wire and a conductive part for achieving conduction with the conductive wire,
the conductive part is formed on a rear-end side of the conductive wire crimp part,
a compression rate at the electric wire holding part is different from a compression rate at the conductive part,
the compression rate at the electric wire holding part is smaller than the compression rate at the conductive part, and
the compression rate at the coating crimp part is smaller than the compression rate at the conductive part.

2. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
tensile strength of the conductive wire at the electric wire holding part is greater than tensile strength of the conductive wire at the conductive part.

3. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
the coated conductive wire includes at least the one conductive wire and a tensile member that are coated by the coating.

4. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 3 , wherein
the electric wire holding part holds both the conductive wire and the tensile member.

5. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
the coated conductive wire includes a plurality of the conductive wires and at least one tension member.

6. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 5 , wherein
on a cross section taken perpendicularly to a longitudinal direction of the coated conductive wire, the tension member is positioned at an approximate center of the coated conductive wire, and the conductive wires are disposed on an outer periphery part of the tension member.

7. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 6 , wherein
the conductive wires are twisted in the longitudinal direction of the coated conductive wire.

8. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
a cross-sectional area of the conductive wire is 0.35 sq or less, and the terminal can crimp the conductive wire having the cross-sectional area of 0.35 sq or less.

9. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
a cross-sectional area of the conductive wire is 0.3 sq or less, and the terminal can crimp the conductive wire having the cross-sectional area of 0.3 sq or less.

10. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
a cross-sectional area of the conductive wire is 0.05 sq or less, and, tensile strength of the conductive wire at the electric wire holding part is 50 N or more.

11. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
at least a part of the conductive wire fractures at the electric wire holding part.

12. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 wherein
at least a part of the conductive wire crimp part is in a pipe shape being closed in a circumferential direction.

13. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 12 , wherein
the coating crimp part is in an open-barrel shape.

14. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 12 , wherein
a conductive wire positioning part is formed at least at a part between the conductive wire crimp part and the coating crimp part;
the conductive wire positioning part becomes smaller in size toward the front-end side; and
a tip end of the coating comes into contact with the conductive wire positioning part so that an insertion margin of the conductive wire into the conductive wire crimp part is restricted.

15. A method for producing the terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 14 , wherein
the conductive wire positioning part is larger in size than an inner diameter of the coating and smaller than an outer diameter of the coating before crimping;
the tip end of the coated conductive wire is inserted into the conductive wire crimp part until a tip end coating comes into contact with the conductive wire positioning part; and
the conductive wire crimp part is crimped.

16. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
at least a tip end part of the conductive wire is compressed from an outer periphery side, or is plated collectively from the outer periphery of the conductive wire.

17. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
the conductive wire crimp part is an open-barrel type.

18. A wire harness comprising:
a plurality of terminal-equipped electric wires including the terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
the terminal-equipped electric wires are unified together as one body.

19. A terminal crimper for producing the terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , the terminal crimper comprising:
an upper edge; and
a lower edge, wherein
a distance between the upper edge and the lower edge at a part corresponding to the electric wire holding part is smaller than a distance between the upper edge and the lower edge at a part corresponding to the conductive part.

20. A method for producing the terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
a cross-sectional area of an inner part of the coating is 40% or more of a cross-sectional area of an insertion part of the conductive wire crimp part before crimping.

21. The method for producing the terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 20 , wherein
the conductive wire is inserted into the conductive wire crimp part with a part of the coating being left at the tip end when removing the coating at the tip end part of the coated conductive wire, and the coating is removed from the conductive wire before crimping.

22. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
the compression rate at the electric wire holding part is 40% or more and less than 50%, the compression rate at the conductive part is 60% or more and less than 90%, and the compression rate at the coating crimp part is 40% or more and less than 50%.

23. A terminal-equipped electric wire in which a coated conductive wire and a terminal are electrically connected with each other, the terminal-equipped electric wire comprising:
a conductive wire crimp part at which a conductive wire exposed from a coating at a tip end of the coated conductive wire is crimped; and
a coating crimp part at which the coating of the coated conductive wire is crimped, wherein
the conductive wire crimp part includes an electric wire holding part for holding the conductive wire and a conductive part for achieving conduction with the conductive wire,
the coated conductive wire includes a plurality of the conductive wires and at least one tension member,
the electric wire holding part holds both the conductive wire and the tensile member,
at the electric wire holding part, at least a part of the conductive wire is fractured, and at the conductive part, the conductive wire is not fractured,
the tension member is not fractured, and
an electrical resistance of the conductive wire at the conductive part is lower than an electrical r

Assignees

• Furukawa Electric Co Ltd
• Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc

Inventors

• Kawanaka Hirofumi
• Hiraiwa Tetsuya
• Takeshita Junya
• Takahashi Hirokazu
• Mitose Kengo
• Motoyama Yoshinari

Classifications

• H01R43/058

  Crimping mandrels · CPC title

• H01R4/185 Primary

  combined with a U-shaped insulation-receiving portion · CPC title

• H01B7/223

  forming part of a high tensile strength core · CPC title

• H01B7/1825

  forming part of a high tensile strength core · CPC title

• H01B7/0009

  Details relating to the conductive cores · CPC title