Crimp-style terminal

• US 4,832,629 A
• Filed: 09/12/1988
• Issued: 05/23/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Sasaki, Toru, Oikawa, Ryuetsu
• Primary Examiner(s): DESMOND, EUGENE
• Application Number:
  US07/242,917
• Time in Patent Office: 253 Days
• Field of Search: 439/623, 439/711, 439/720, 439/727, 439/763, 439/791, 439/793, 439/868, 439/883-889
• US Class Current: 439/792
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/01 characterised by the form or arrangement of the conductive interconnection between the connecting locations

Abstract

A crimp-style terminal fixed to an electrical connection such as a bar of an electrical source together with the other terminal piled thereon with a screw includes first rotation preventing member for preventing a rotation of the crimp-style terminal about the electrical connection and second rotation preventing member for preventing a rotational movement of the other terminal about the crimp-style terminal when screwed. Said first rotation preventing member consists of a pair of first bent portions which are adapted to be engagement with the bar, and said second rotation preventing member consists of a pair of second bent portions bent to the opposite side to the first bent portions, which are adapted to regulate the rotational movement of the other terminal.

Claims

1. A crimp-style terminal fixed to an electrical connection with a screw together with at least one other terminal overlaid on the crimp-style terminal, wherein the screw defines a common axis of connection of the crimp-style terminals, the electrical connection and the at least one other terminal, which comprises;

an electrial contacting section with an aperture for receiving said screw;

a wire connecting section to which a wire is connected;

first means for preventing a rotation of the crimp-style terminal about the common axis of connection of the crimp-style terminal and the electrical connection; and

second means for preventing a rotation of the at least one other terminal about the common axis of connection of the at least one other terminal and the crimp-style terminal, whereby the rotation of the crimp-style terminal and the overlaid terminal with respect to the electrical connection about the common axis of connection when they are fixed with the screw can be prevented;

said electrical contacting section having two sides wherein said electrical contacting section has a pair of elongated portions integrally provided on the both sides, respectively, and said first rotation preventing means comprises a pair of first bent portions formed by bending said elongated portions substantially at a right angle with respect to the electrical contacting section and said second rotation preventing means comprises a pair of second bent portions bent to the opposite side of said first bent portions.

2. A crimp-style terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein said crimp-style terminal further comprises a neck portion formed between the electrical contacting section and the wire connecting section, and said second bent portions are formed from a pair of projections integrally formed on the neck portion.

3. A crimp-style terminal as set forth in claim 2, wherein said terminal is formed by press working of a metal sheet material.

4. A crimp-style terminal as set forth in claim 2, wherein said connection is a bar of an electrical source having an end portion, and the width of the first bent portions is slightly wider than the width of the end portion whereby the crimp-style terminal can be non-rotatably engaged with the bar.

5. A crimp-style terminal as set forth in claim 4, wherein said terminal is formed by press working of a metal sheet material.

6. A crimp-style terminal as set forth in claim 4, wherein the other terminal comprises an electrical contacting section with an aperture for the screw, a wire connecting section to which a wire is connected and a neck portion formed therebetween, and the width of the second bent portions is relatively wider than that of the neck portion of the other terminal, whereby the rotational movement of the other terminal when screwed is regulated by the second bent portions.

7. A crimp-style terminal as set forth in claim 6, wherein said terminal is formed by press working of a metal sheet material.

8. A crimp-style terminal as set forth in claim 6, wherein the second bent portions have sufficient height for regulating rotational movements of the other terminals piled thereon.

9. A crimp-style terminal as set forth in claim 8, wherein said terminal is formed by press working of a metal sheet material.

10. A crimp-style terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein said terminal is formed by press working of a metal sheet material.

11. A crimp-style terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein additional two rotation preventing means are provided on the both sides of the electrical contacting section.

12. A crimp-style terminal as set forth in claim 11, wherein said terminal is formed by press working of a metal sheet material.

13. A crimp-style terminal as set forth in claim 11, wherein further one rotation preventing means is provided on the electrical contacting section on the opposite side of the wire connecting section.

14. A crimp-style terminal as set forth in claim 13, wherein said terminal is formed by press working of a metal sheet material.