US 12,136,777 B2
Electrical multi-core cable crimp ferrule, and crimping method
Dominik Klingler, Bensheim (DE)
Assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed by TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/853,415.
Claims priority of application No. 102021117039.7 (DE), filed on Jul. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0006372 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 4/20 (2006.01); H01B 7/08 (2006.01); H01B 7/18 (2006.01); H01R 4/18 (2006.01); H01R 11/28 (2006.01); H01R 13/6591 (2011.01); H01R 13/6592 (2011.01); H01R 43/048 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 11/28 (2013.01) [H01B 7/0807 (2013.01); H01B 7/18 (2013.01); H01R 4/184 (2013.01); H01R 4/206 (2013.01); H01R 13/65912 (2020.08); H01R 13/6592 (2013.01); H01R 43/048 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A crimp ferrule, comprising:
an assembly portion assembled on a non-circular internal cross section of a multi-core cable, the assembly portion has an assembly device establishing the crimp ferrule on the non-circular internal cross section, the assembly device has an assembly tongue connected by a tongue root to the crimp ferrule, the assembly tongue is rectilinear in a direction extending away from the tongue root and is bendable with respect to the tongue root, the assembly tongue is rectilinear in a crimped state of the assembly portion, the assembly device is one of a plurality of assembly devices arranged in a circumferential direction of the crimp ferrule; and
a diameter compensation portion forming a circular external cross section of the crimp ferrule on the multi-core cable, the assembly portion and the diameter compensation portion are arranged successively in an axial direction of the crimp ferrule.