Connection method of terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9601889-B2
Application number	US-201113809723-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 14, 2011
Priority date	Jul 14, 2010
Publication date	Mar 21, 2017
Grant date	Mar 21, 2017

Abstract

A connection method of a terminal includes an inserting-arranging process for inserting and arranging conductors of a plurality of wires into a connection section. The wires have the conductor sections exposed from the sheaths thereof at the end portions. The connection section has cylindrical shape with a bottom portion and an opening section. The method further includes a heating-melting process for heating the connection section in a state that the opening section of the connection section faced upwards in the vertical direction to melt the conductors within the connection section, and a molten-metal raising process for conducting an insertion of the conductors into the connection section and/or a pressurization of the connection section from outside to raise the molten metal within the connection section to a level upper.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A connection method of a terminal comprising:
an inserting and arranging process of inserting and arranging, as a bundle, conductors of a plurality of wires, which are exposed from sheaths at end portions of the wires, into a connection section, which has a cylindrical shape with a bottom portion and an opening section at one side of the connection section, wherein the terminal is formed of metal material and has the connection section;
a heating and melting process of heating the connection section with the opening section of the connection section being faced upwards in a vertical direction to melt the conductors within the connection section; and
a molten metal raising process of performing pressurization of the connection section from an outside to raise the molten metal within the connection section to an upper level disposed above end portions of the sheaths of the wires in the vertical direction such that said end portions are covered by the molten metal.

Assignees

• Ito Naoki
• Matsushita Kouichiro
• Yazaki Corp

Inventors

• Ito Naoki
• Matsushita Kouichiro

Classifications

• B23K2201/32

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• H01R43/0249 Primary

  for simultaneous welding or soldering of a plurality of wires to contact elements · CPC title

• H01R4/22

  End caps, i.e. of insulating or conductive material for covering or maintaining connections between wires entering the cap from the same end · CPC title

• H01R4/023 Primary

  between cables or wires and terminals · CPC title

• H01R4/187

  combined with soldering or welding · CPC title