US 11,996,644 B2
Terminal
Teruo Hara, Yokkaichi (JP); Hajime Kawase, Yokkaichi (JP); Masaaki Tabata, Yokkaichi (JP); Hajime Matsui, Yokkaichi (JP); Hiroshi Kobayashi, Okazaki (JP); and Takeshi Amakawa, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Mie (JP); SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP); SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Appl. No. 17/613,553
Filed by AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokkaichi (JP); SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Yokkaichi (JP); SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
PCT Filed May 25, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/020577
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 23, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/250656, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-109703 (JP), filed on Jun. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0247109 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/26 (2006.01); H01R 13/514 (2006.01); H01R 107/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/26 (2013.01) [H01R 13/514 (2013.01); H01R 2107/00 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A terminal comprising:
a terminal body into which an electric wire is inserted in a predefined direction, the terminal body including:
connecting tabs deformable in a direction crossing an inserting direction in which the electric wire is inserted, the connecting tabs including contact surfaces contactable with the electric wire; and
a slider slidable between a separated position at which the slider is separated from the terminal body and an overlapping position at which the slider overlaps the terminal body from an outer side while the slider contacts the terminal body from front ends of the connecting tabs,
the slider including:
pressing portions that protrude inward and press the connecting tabs to contact the electric wire, wherein
the slider includes a narrow portion and a wide portion,
the narrow portion is in an area in which the pressing portions are provided,
the narrow portion has a less inner dimension in a pressing direction in which the pressing portions press the electric wire,
the wide portion is in front of the pressing portions with respect to the inserting direction,
the wide portion has a greater inner dimension in the pressing direction than the narrow portion,
the pressing portions press the connecting tabs when the narrow portion is at the overlapping position and overlaps the connecting tabs from the outer side, and
the slider includes a sloped guide surface that is angled at an edge of a wall that defines the wide portion to spread further than the wide portion with respect to the pressing direction toward a front with respect to the inserting direction.