IP Library Granted Patent US 7,174,633
Granted Patent B2
US 7,174,633 · App. 10/741,433 · Granted Feb 13, 2007

Method of connecting terminal and electric wire

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Patent No.
US 7,174,633
App. No.
10/741,433
Granted
Feb 13, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention comprises filling a conductive adhesive on a hole end of a wire connection part in tubular shape of the terminal which has an electric contact part at one side and the wire connection part at the other side, inserting an electric wire from a hole opening of the wire connection part toward the hole end, and reducing evenly a size of a tubular wall of the wire connection part, thereby causing the conductive adhesive to infiltrate into a space of the electric contact part or between wires. The invention also comprises tightening the tubular wall of the wire connection part by a rotary swaging process. Further, the conductive adhesive is a nickel paste which is a mixture of nickel powders in a liquid epoxy resin based binder. In addition, at least one of a core wire portion of the electric wire or the terminal is aluminum or aluminum alloy.

Claims (7)

1. A method of connecting a terminal and an electric wire, wherein the terminal includes an electric contact part at one side thereof and a tubular wire connection part at another end thereof comprising the steps of:

filling a conductive adhesive on a hole end of the wire connection part;

inserting the electric wire from a hole opening of the wire connection part toward the hole end, and

tightening uniformly a tubular wall of the wire connection part, thereby infiltrating the conductive adhesive into a space of the electric contact part and gaps between core wires of said electric wire.

2. The method of connecting the terminal and the electric wire as set forth in claim 1 , further comprising tightening the tubular wall of the wire connection part by a rotary swaging process.

3. The method of connecting the terminal and the electric wire as set forth in claim 2 , wherein the conductive adhesive is a nickel paste which is a mixture of nickel powders in a liquid epoxy resin based binder.

4. The method of connecting the terminal and the electric wire as set forth in claim 1 , wherein at least one of a core wire portion of the electric wire or the terminal is aluminum or aluminum alloy.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 5, 2023
From: YAZAKI CORPORATION
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063845/0802 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 14, 2004
From: ONUMA, MASANORI
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 015336/0707 →