A semi-finished product for manufacturing an electrical contact element includes a first workpiece having a front side and a rear side opposite the front side, a second workpiece, and a window extending through the first workpiece. The first workpiece and the second workpiece are both metallic. The rear side of the first workpiece is closer to the second workpiece than the front side. Through the window, a surface of the second workpiece is accessible from the first workpiece. The window has a base area that, starting at the front side of the first workpiece, increases toward the second workpiece.

A terminal includes a bottom wall having a through hole, a pair of sidewalls disposed on a pair of sides of the bottom wall, and a first elastic arm extending from a first side of the through hole in a direction away from the bottom wall. The sidewalls and the first elastic arm contact a pin inserted into the through hole.

A method of assembling a connector for automotive applications, comprising the steps of: providing a cable having at least one inner conductor; connecting an elongated inner signal contact of the connector to a stripped end of the at least one inner conductor; surrounding the elongated inner signal contact by an insulating element; placing a first shielding part of the connector around a first portion of the insulating element from a first radial direction; placing a second shielding part of the connector around a second portion of the insulating element from a second radial direction generally opposite to the first radial direction; and joining the first and second shielding parts to form a shielding contact of the connector surrounding the insulating element.

A method for producing an electrical connection between an electrical conductor, which includes a plurality of individual wires, and a contact element. The electrical conductor is arranged in a contact portion of the contact element, and the contact portion and the electrical conductor are subsequently pressed together so that the contact portion surrounds the electrical conductor. A a plurality of mutually spaced elongate welded connections between the contact portion and the electrical conductor are produced by laser irradiation of the contact portion, or by laser irradiation of the electrical conductor through an opening in the contact portion. The elongate welded connections extend in an irradiation direction from an irradiated region of the contact portion, or from an irradiated region of the electrical conductor, through an entire cross-section of the pressed electrical conductor to a region of the contact portion opposite to the irradiated region, such that the electrical conductor is connected to this area of the contact portion; and the irradiated regions are arranged in the form of a grid.

The present disclosure provides a connector, which relates to the technical field of electrical connection devices, so as to solve the problem of poor connection stability of connectors in existing technologies. The connector includes a mounting base and a binding post, wherein the binding post has both sides symmetrically provided with a fixed fin, the mounting base defines thereon a mounting groove for mounting the binding post, two sides of the mounting groove define a limit groove, and the fixed fin is clamped in the limit groove so as to enable the binding post to be limited to the mounting groove. The connector according to the present disclosure has good connection stability and can effectively transmit current or signal, enabling an effective cooperation between connected devices.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a feature making it easy to accommodate a terminal-equipped wire in a connector housing. This connector-equipped wire is provided with: a terminal-equipped wire comprising a jacketed wire and a terminal component that is provided to an end part of the jacketed wire; and a connector housing comprising a body component where a cavity has been formed and a cover component mounted onto the body component. A distal end part of the terminal component is accommodated in the cavity. A rear end part of the terminal component protrudes out to outside the cavity, and is covered by the cover component or by the cover component and the body component. In the state where the rear end part of the terminal component protrudes out to outside the cavity, the cover component can be mounted onto the body component in accordance with a sliding movement in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction of the cavity.

In a structure in which a cable is installed into a connector is provided. A back retainer is arranged in a compressed state between an inner circumferential surface of a cylindrical portion, included in a connector body and extending in the axis line direction, and an outer circumferential surface of the cable. The back retainer includes a main annular portion which is configured such that a compression amount on the back retainer in the radial direction centered on the axis line direction gradually increases as the compression amount goes from one side toward the other side. The back retainer includes an engaging protrusion configured to prevent the back retainer from detaching from the cylindrical portion on an outer circumferential surface of the back retainer.

An electrical crimp ferrule includes a circumferential center portion, a first circumferential flank connected to the center portion, and a second circumferential flank connected to the center portion. The circumferential center portion integrally connects the first and second circumferential flanks. At least one crimp diameter compensation element extends from at least one of the first circumferential flank or the second circumferential flank and is adapted to engage with an electrical cable having a non-circular cross section in a crimped state of the ferrule.

An electrical connection terminal and an electrical connection assembly are disclosed. The electrical connection terminal has a base, and a plurality of tabs connected to the base. The plurality of tabs are separated from each other, and each of the plurality of tabs is adapted to mate with a mating terminal in a plug-in manner. In the present invention, the electrical connection terminal adopts a plurality of parallel tabs, so the length of the electrical connection terminal and the current flow path through the electrical connection terminal are reduced. Therefore, the electrical connection terminal of the present invention has low body resistance, less heating and is more suitable for high current applications.

A cable assembly comprises a conductive cable including an exposed conductive first section having a first cross-section, and a second section adjacent the first second and having a second cross-section distinct from the first cross-section. A ferrule is positioned over the conductive cable and includes a body defining a seam formed therethrough in an axial direction. The ferrule defines a first body portion deformed into a cross-section corresponding to the first portion of the conductive cable, and a second body portion deformed into a cross-section corresponding to the second portion of the conductive cable.