US 11,843,194 B2
Terminal-equipped electric wire
Takahito Jo, Yokkaichi (JP); Yasushi Saito, Yokkaichi (JP); Tomoyuki Sakata, Yokkaichi (JP); Masaaki Tabata, Yokkaichi (JP); Teruo Hara, Yokkaichi (JP); Shunya Takeuchi, Yokkaichi (JP); Hideki Matsunaga, Yokkaichi (JP); Keisuke Teramoto, Yokkaichi (JP); Hiroshi Kobayashi, Toyota (JP); and Takeshi Amakawa, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokkaichi (JP); SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Yokkaichi (JP); SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Appl. No. 17/628,972
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 Aug. 5, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/030054
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 21, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/029302, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 18, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-147255 (JP), filed on Aug. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0263261 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/03 (2006.01); H01R 4/50 (2006.01); H01R 13/11 (2006.01); H01R 13/193 (2006.01); H01R 4/18 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/03 (2013.01) [H01R 4/50 (2013.01); H01R 13/11 (2013.01); H01R 13/193 (2013.01); H01R 4/18 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A terminal-equipped electric wire comprising:
an electric wire that includes a conductor;
a terminal connected to the conductor; and
a shell attached to the terminal,
wherein the conductor has a nominal cross-sectional area of 0.13 mm2 or less,
the terminal includes a grip portion that pinches the conductor,
the shell includes a pressing portion that presses at least a portion of the grip portion toward the conductor,
at least one of the conductor and the grip portion includes:
a tin layer;
an oxide coating formed on a surface of the tin layer; and
an adhering portion formed of a portion of tin contained in the tin layer that passes through the oxide coating and pours out onto a surface of the oxide coating, and
the adhering portion has an area of 0.100 mm2 or more.