US 12,300,921 B2
Male terminal fitting and connector
Yuma Mamiya, Mie (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP)
Filed by SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP)
Filed on Aug. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/884,060.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-132768 (JP), filed on Aug. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0056049 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 13/02 (2006.01); H01R 13/05 (2006.01); H01R 13/08 (2006.01); H01R 13/639 (2006.01); H01R 24/86 (2011.01)
CPC H01R 13/055 (2013.01) [H01R 13/08 (2013.01); H01R 13/639 (2013.01); H01R 24/86 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A male terminal fitting, comprising:
a base wall extending in a front-rear direction; and
a plate-like tab portion extending forward from a front end part of the base wall,
wherein:
the tab portion includes a first wall portion extending forward from the front end part of the base wall, a second wall portion facing the first wall portion, a coupling wall portion coupling side edges on one side, out of both left and right sides, of the first and second wall portions, and a contact wall portion extending from a side edge on the other side, out of the both left and right sides, of the first wall portion toward the second wall portion and abutting on the second wall portion,
the front end part of the first wall portion is provided with a first tip part approaching the second wall portion toward a front side and a front end part of the second wall portion is provided with a second tip part approaching the first wall portion toward the front side,
a first contact part of a front end part of the first tip part and a second contact part of a front end part of the second tip part are in contact, and
front end parts of the first and second contact parts are located closer to the second wall portion than a center position of an interval between an outer surface of the first wall portion and an outer surface of the second wall portion.