15-10-2020 дата публикации
Номер: US20200328545A1
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An electrical terminal with a contact portion and a spring arm and a method of insertion. The contact portion has a mating terminal receiving cavity. The spring arm extends from a bottom wall into the mating terminal receiving cavity. The spring arm has a fixed end, a free end and a transition section extending between the fixed end and the free end. The bottom wall has an opening with a front wall and a rear wall. The spring arm extends from the front wall toward the rear wall. A coined area is provided proximate the rear wall of the opening on the bottom wall. The spring arm acts initially as a single supported cantilever beam and then, upon deflection, acts as a double supported beam. 1. An electrical terminal comprising:a contact portion having a bottom wall, side walls and top walls, the top walls being spaced from the bottom wall and extending in a plane which is essentially parallel to the plane of the bottom wall, the bottom wall, side walls and top walls forming a mating terminal receiving cavity;a spring arm extending from the bottom wall into the mating terminal receiving cavity, the spring arm having a fixed end, a free end and a transition section extending between the fixed end and the free end; andthe bottom wall having an opening with a front wall and a rear wall, the fixed end of the spring arm positioned adjacent the front wall, the transition section and the free end of the spring arm positioned between the front wall and the rear wall;a coined area extending from the rear wall of the opening into the opening toward the front wall, the coined area having a projecting wall which is spaced from the rear wall of the opening, a distance as measured from the front wall of the opening to the projecting wall of the coined area being less than a length of the spring arm as measured from the fixed end to the free end;wherein upon deflection, the spring arm acts initially as a single supported cantilever beam and then, upon the free end of the spring arm ...
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