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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12444860-B2
Application number	US-202218148721-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 30, 2022
Priority date	Jul 7, 2020
Publication date	Oct 14, 2025
Grant date	Oct 14, 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 a part that crimps the coated conductive wire and includes a conductive wire crimp part crimping a conductive wire exposed from a coating on a tip-end side of the coated conductive wire, and a coating crimp part crimping the coating of the coated conductive wire. The coated conductive wire includes a tension member disposed in an approximate center of a cross section, and a conductive wire including a plurality of conductors disposed on an outer periphery of the tension member. The tension member includes a plurality of strands. The conductive wire is crimped at the conductive wire crimp part from the entire circumference of the circumferential direction of the conductive wire. Preferably, a tensile strength of the tension member is greater than that of the conductive wire.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A terminal-equipped electric wire in which a coated conductive wire and a terminal are electrically connected to each other, the coated conductive wire comprising:
a tension member; and
a conductive wire that is disposed on an outer periphery of the tension member and is formed of a plurality of conductors, wherein
a cross-sectional area of the conductive wire is 0.35 mm 2 or less;
tensile strength of the tension member is greater than tensile strength of the conductive wire, the terminal comprising:
a conductive wire crimp part at which the conductive wire being 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 is crimped at the conductive wire crimp part from an entire circumference of a circumferential direction of the conductive wire;
an unevenness is formed on an outer periphery surface of the tension member and the conductive wire deforms being fitted along the unevenness shape; and
the conductive wire is crimped at the conductive wire crimp part so that the conductive wire does not break.

2. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
the tension member comprises a plurality of strands.

3. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
a compression rate of the conductive wire is equal to or less than an apparent compression rate of a region on which the tension member is disposed; wherein the compression rate of the conductor wire is defined as “a total cross-sectional area of the conductor wire after crimping/a total cross-sectional area of the conductor wire before crimping” and the apparent compression rate of the tension member is defined as “a cross-sectional area of a region of the tension member after crimping/a cross-sectional area of a region of the tension member before crimping”.

4. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
the conductive wire is twisted on the outer periphery of the tension member.

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

6. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of conductors are coated with a plating.

7. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
the conductive wire is crimped at the conductive wire crimp part from the entire circumference at a predetermined position in an axial direction.

8. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
the conductive wire crimp part is not in contact with the tension member.

9. The terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , wherein
the cross-sectional area of the conductive wire is 0.3 mm 2 or less.

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

11. A method for manufacturing the terminal-equipped electric wire according to claim 1 , the method comprising:
crimping the conductive wire crimp part, wherein
both the compression rate of the conductive wire and the apparent compression rate of the tension member are reduced in an early stage of compression; wherein the compression rate of the conductor wire is defined as “a total cross-sectional area of the conductor wire after crimping/a total cross-sectional area of the conductor wire before crimping” and the apparent compression rate of the tension member is defined as “a cross-sectional area of a region of the tension member after crimping/a cross-sectional area of a region of the tension member before crimping”; and
by compressing further, a rate of reduction in the apparent compression rate of the tension member becomes smaller than a rate of reduction in the compression rate of the conductive wire.

Assignees

• Furukawa Electric Co Ltd
• Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc

Inventors

• Takahashi Hirokazu
• Kawanaka Hirofumi
• Takeshita Junya
• Hiraiwa Tetsuya
• Wada Takuto
• Mitose Kengo

Classifications

• H01R43/16

  for manufacturing contact members, e.g. by punching and by bending · CPC title

• H01R13/11

  Resilient sockets (carrying separate resilient parts H01R13/15) · CPC title

• B60R16/0207

  Wire harnesses · 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