A die for a terminalized electric wire is provided with a first electrode, a hole forming jig, an electric wire pressing jig which surrounds a periphery of the first electrode, a second electrode and conductor accommodation parts. The conductor accommodation parts are recessed in molded inner wall surfaces at both sides of the electric wire pressing jig which holds a superposed configuration part in which the end side is superposed on the root side of the annular conductor in the vertical direction. A part of a molten conductor of the superposed configuration part flows into the conductor accommodation parts.

It is an objective of the invention to provide a conductive joint article exhibiting electrical joinability comparable to that of solder joining of easy-to-solder joinable metals even when a joined member of the conductive joint article is made of a hard-to-solder joinable metal. There is provided a conductive joint article with conductive joined members electrically joined via a joining layer, at least one of the joined members being made of a hard-to-solder joinable metal. The joining layer comprises an oxide glass phase and a conductive metal phase. The oxide glass phase includes vanadium as a major constituent and at least one of phosphorus, barium and tungsten as an accessory constituent, and has a glass transition point of 390 C. or less. And, connection resistance between the joined members exhibits less than 110.sup.5 /mm.sup.2.

A conductor assembly includes a first conductor made of metal and a second conductor bonded to the first conductor. The second conductor is made of a metal plate having first and second surfaces opposite to each other. The second conductor has a projection locally projecting from the first surface. A recess is provided in the second surface of the second conductor opposite to the projection. The projection of the second conductor has a portion contacting and entering into the first conductor. The projection of the second conductor is resistance-welded to the first conductor. The portion of the projection of the second conductor has two tips locally projecting from the portion of the projection of the second conductor and entering the first conductor.

Disclosed are a filter structure, a welding fixture, and a manufacturing method of the filter structure. The filter structure includes: a box having a cavity; coil components installed in the cavity; and wiring components, each having a positive wiring pin and a negative wiring pin fixed to the box. The conductive wire has conductive wires coupled to both ends of the coil component and welded with the positive and negative wiring pins respectively. After a wiring section of the pins is embedded into a side of a wire latch slot, the conductive wire of the coil is latched into the wire latch slot and welded with the pins by spot welding without the need of manually winding the conductive wire and the pins, so as to reduce labor, expedite assembling, improve production efficiency and save material cost of the conductive wire.

A method for manufacturing an electrical connection assembly includes a connector preparing step of preparing a connector (CN), in which each of plural terminals (20) has a conductor connection surface (27a) exposed outside an insulating housing (30). A connecting step of connects parts of conductors and the conductor connection surfaces (27a) corresponding thereto while tension is applied to a wiring material (10) by holding the wiring material (10) including the conductors arrayed at intervals from each other in an array direction at holding positions separated from each other in a longitudinal direction of the wiring material. A cutting step sandwiches and cuts the wiring material (10) by two cutting tools (62, 65) at a cutting position between one of the holding positions and the parts to be connected with the wiring material (10) kept held after the completion of the connecting step.

[Problems] A cable connecting structure for connecting bus bars and an insulating part with a simple configuration is provided. [Means for solving the problems] The cable connecting structure includes a plurality of bus bars (60), a flexible flat cable (14), and an insulating part (40). The flexible flat cable (14) is connected to the bus bars (60). The insulating part (40) has bus bar mounting grooves (41) for arranging the bus bars (60) individually and a bus bar fixing portion (45) for fixing the bus bars (60) by overlapping the bus bars (60). A triangular protrusion (62) that protrudes toward a side where the flexible flat cable (14) is mounted is formed in each of the bus bars (60). The flexible flat cable (14) is connected to the triangular protrusion (62) in each of the bus bars (60).

An arrangement for electrically conductively connecting a cup shaped copper contact part to an electrical conductor that is made of a plurality of individual wires containing aluminum. The arrangement has a cup-shaped contact part, which includes a bottom and a cylindrical sleeve integrally connected to and projecting away from the bottom with tight contact of the sleeve to the conductor. The cup-shaped contact part is configured to be pushed onto the conductor until the end face of the conductor rests against the bottom of the contact part. At least one rotating tool is configured to be removably placed with sustained pressure, subsequently to the cup-shaped contact part, until the material of the conductor is softened due to the increased temperature of the material of the conductor due to friction to such an extent that it integrally connects to the contact part.

A sensor element includes: an element body including, for example, a thermistor; paired lead wires drawn out from the element body; and stranded wires that are each obtained by twisting a plurality of core wires and are joined to the respective paired lead wires in a welding region. The welding region includes a main joining region provided in a predetermined region in an axis direction, and sub joining regions adjacent to the main joining region, and joining strength of each of the lead wires and the corresponding stranded wire is higher in the main joining region than in the sub-joining region.

An apparatus and method for fastening dissimilar materials like steel, plastic and aluminum. A resistance welding fastener having multiple layers may be used with or without a sealant. The fastener may be used to form an aluminum covered steel laminate via a hemming pattern of attachment. The fastener may have a solid shaft or have an extended reach and have features for interacting with the welding electrode. A variety of electrode tips may be employed to cooperate with the fastener.

A device for the contacting of a conductor with an electrical component with a flat conductor made of aluminum includes a contacting element, which is connectable with the flat conductor in a material-bonded manner. The contacting element is formed of copper and configured as a disk, in which the disk includes a friction aid configured as a conical or annular structure on a first side, referred to as a joint side, and an outer contour, provided with at least one opening, on a second side opposite the joint side of the disk, for the receiving of the disk in an insertion contour corresponding to a welding tool.