A connected structure including: a first circuit member having a first electrode; a second circuit member having a second electrode; and a connecting portion provided between the first circuit member and the second circuit member and electrically connecting the first electrode and the second electrode to each other, wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode has a layer made of Cu or Ag as an outermost surface thereof, and the connecting portion contains a conductive particle having a layer made of Pd or Au as an outermost surface thereof.

A grounding elastic contact and an electronic device including the same. The grounding elastic contact includes an elastic core, and a double-sided polyethylene terephthalate (PET) tape, a polyimide (PI) film, and a conductive layer, where the PI film is laminated and bonded on an outer side of the double-sided PET tape; a middle region of the double-sided PET tape is attached to an upper surface of the elastic core; after passing through left and right sides of the elastic core respectively, two ends of the double-sided PET tape are laminated on a lower surface of the elastic core; the conductive layer includes one end bonded on the upper surface of the elastic core, and the other end passing through the left side of the elastic core; the double-sided PET tape includes a PET backing and an adhesive coated on two sides of the PET backing.

An Integrated Starter Generator System The present invention relates to an Integrated Starter Generator system (100) comprising a battery (110) and a three-phase brushless DC electric machine (130). The electric machine (130) has a stator (132) with 6n stator teeth (132′), ‘n’ being a natural number, and each stator tooth (132′) has a coil corresponding to one of the three phases. The electric machine (130) further has a rotor (134) with 6n±2 rotor poles (134′) facing the stator, and magnets on the rotor poles (134′) are disposed with an alternating sequence of magnet polarity facing the stator (132).

A connection arrangement comprising a metallic flat conductor having an at least quadrangular cross-sectional profile and at least two mutually opposing first and second surfaces extending at least partially parallel to one another in the longitudinal direction, at least two parts which are flat in the overlap region and which are formed as connecting lugs and which rest on the first surface with an overlap joint and project beyond one or both longitudinal edges of the flat conductor, characterized in that a metallic friction stir welded joint zone is formed starting from the second surface through the flat conductor towards the first surface and projecting into the connecting lugs.

A method of making an electrical connection is here proposed. The method includes the steps of joining a first contact member to a second contact member in a material-to-material contact. The method steps for the same include: providing the first contact part, which towards the second contact part has a male, first joining section as a solid component with an at least substantially rotationally symmetrical profile, providing the second contact part having towards the first contact part a female second joining portion with a hollow profile, inserting the first joining section into the second joining section, applying a friction welding tool (400) to or in an opening of the second joining section (121), and moving the friction welding tool relative to the first contact part and/or the second contact part to generate welding energy for at least partially plasticizing a part of the first joining portion and/or second joining portion facing the other contact part.

A method for contacting a wire (1), in particular an aluminum wire, with a connecting body (4), in particular with a plug of a coil body (5), comprising the following steps: connecting the wire (1) materially to the connecting body (4) at at least one point (2, 3); after connecting, enclosing a connecting region including the at least at one point (2, 3) is by a shrink tube (6) with an inner glue (7), the shrink tube (6) encompassing the connecting body (4).

A manufacturing method for an electric wire having a terminal includes a step of connecting a plurality of core wires by an ultrasonic connection process to form a connected core wire. In the step, the core wires are formed into the connected core wire having a cross-sectional shape having a width and a height in a plane orthogonal to an axis of the connected core wire, the width is not longer than a length obtained by subtracting two times a thickness of the terminal from a width of an arch groove of a crimper of a crimping apparatus in a state that a space between a support surface of an anvil of the crimping apparatus and the arch groove defines a predetermined crimped shape.

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a mating cavity and a plurality of power contact pairs. Each power contact pair defines an upper contact set and a lower contact set, each one of the upper contact set and the lower contact set comprises a first contact unit and a second contact unit, each one of the first contact unit and the second contact unit has a retaining portion and at least one contacting portion extending from the retaining portion into the mating cavity. The retaining portions of the upper contact set are arranged in a height direction of the insulative housing with the contacting portions thereof arranged in a transverse direction of the insulative housing, the retaining portions of the lower contact set are arranged in the height direction with the contacting portions thereof arranged in the transverse direction.

A method for manufacturing a terminal-attached electric wire including an electric wire including a core wire having plurality of strand wires, and a female terminal including wire barrels crimped around the core wire. The method includes a first step of applying ultrasonic vibrations to the core wire, and a second step of crimping the wire barrels in a region of the core wire to which ultrasonic vibrations have been applied. The first step includes applying ultrasonic vibrations to the core wire while leaving a compression margin for the crimping by the second step such that the resistance between the electric wire and the female terminal is stabilized until the strand wires of the terminal-attached electric wire are severed when the core wire of the terminal-attached electric wire is further compressed after the second step.

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.