US 12,424,781 B2
Power terminal with a multilayered structure and set of power terminals having various numbers of layers
Sylvain Bossuyt, Boutigny Prouais (FR); Quentin Cordier, L+3 Eveque (FR); Patrick J Reedy, Youngstown, OH (US); and Nicholas Nicholas Durse, Youngstown, OH (US)
Assigned to APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG, Schaffhause (CH)
Filed by Aptiv Technologies AG, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/081,101.
Claims priority of application No. 22315023 (EP), filed on Jan. 26, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0246371 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 13/187 (2006.01); H01R 13/24 (2006.01); H01R 24/66 (2011.01)
CPC H01R 13/187 (2013.01) [H01R 13/2407 (2013.01); H01R 24/66 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A power terminal, comprising:
a contact portion;
a connection portion; and
an intermediate portion disposed between the contact portion and the connection portion, wherein the contact and intermediate portions include a plurality of conductive layers stacked along a direction corresponding to their respective thicknesses, wherein the contact portion includes a main top surface that is perpendicular to the stacking direction and at least one contact area protruding from the main top surface, wherein each layer of the plurality of conductive layers in the contact portion comprises at least one first embossed region, wherein the at least one first embossed region of each layer is registered with the at least one first embossed region of an adjacent layer, and wherein the at least one first embossed region of a top layer forms the at least one contact area, wherein each layer of the plurality of conductive layers comprises at least one second embossed region in the intermediate portion configured to couple the plurality of conductive layers together.