US 12,482,962 B2
Electric terminal, terminal assembly, connector assembly and method for manufacturing the terminal assembly
Klaus Lechner, Pretzfeld (DE); Sagar Kumbhar, Pune (IN); Himanshu Kudalkar, Pune (IN); Swanand Deshpande, Pune (IN); and Pankaj Ingale, Pune (IN)
Assigned to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH, Munich (DE)
Filed by Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH, Munich (DE)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/051,065.
Claims priority of application No. 21208785 (EP), filed on Nov. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0155309 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 12/58 (2011.01)
CPC H01R 12/58 (2013.01) 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric terminal for an electric connection of a device in a connector-to-counter-connector configuration, comprising:
a device contact terminal end;
a counter-connector terminal end; and
an intermediate portion between the device contact terminal end and the counter-connector terminal end;
wherein the electric terminal extends from the device contact terminal end to the counter-connector terminal end in a main direction, and
wherein the intermediate portion includes at least two turning points to deflect the extension of the electric terminal at least once from the main direction, and wherein the intermediate portion is a meander portion having at least one meander deflecting the extension of the electric terminal away from and back towards the main direction;
wherein the electric terminal further includes a further portion between the meander portion and the counter-connector terminal end, the further portion having an opening, wherein the opening extends at least partially through the electric terminal in a direction transverse or inclined to the main direction, and is entirely circumferentially enclosed by a material of the electric terminal, wherein the opening is disposed between at least two shoulder portions which project in a radial outward direction with respect to the main direction, a first shoulder portion of the at least two shoulder portions being at a first end of the further portion adjacent to the meander portion, and a second shoulder portion of the at least two should portions being a second end of the further portion, opposite to the first end, and adjacent to the counter-connector terminal end.