US 12,444,860 B2
Terminal-equipped electric wire, wiring harness, and method for manufacturing terminal-equipped electric wire
Hirokazu Takahashi, Tokyo (JP); Hirofumi Kawanaka, Tokyo (JP); Junya Takeshita, Tokyo (JP); Tetsuya Hiraiwa, Inukami-gun (JP); Takuto Wada, Inukami-gun (JP); and Kengo Mitose, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP); and FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC., Inukami-gun (JP)
Filed by FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP); and FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC., Inukami-gun (JP)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/148,721.
Application 18/148,721 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/025453, filed on Jul. 6, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-117111 (JP), filed on Jul. 7, 2020; and application No. 2020-196035 (JP), filed on Nov. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0133056 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 4/18 (2006.01); B60R 16/02 (2006.01); H01R 13/11 (2006.01); H01R 43/16 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 4/183 (2013.01) [B60R 16/0207 (2013.01); H01R 13/11 (2013.01); H01R 43/16 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
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1. A terminal-equipped electric wire in which a coated conductive wire and a terminal are electrically connected to each other, the coated conductive wire comprising:
a tension member; and
a conductive wire that is disposed on an outer periphery of the tension member and is formed of a plurality of conductors, wherein
a cross-sectional area of the conductive wire is 0.35 mm2 or less;
tensile strength of the tension member is greater than tensile strength of the conductive wire, the terminal comprising:
a conductive wire crimp part at which the conductive wire being exposed from a coating at a tip end of the coated conductive wire is crimped; and
a coating crimp part at which the coating of the coated conductive wire is crimped, wherein
the conductive wire is crimped at the conductive wire crimp part from an entire circumference of a circumferential direction of the conductive wire;
an unevenness is formed on an outer periphery surface of the tension member and the conductive wire deforms being fitted along the unevenness shape; and
the conductive wire is crimped at the conductive wire crimp part so that the conductive wire does not break.