the insulation piercing kontaktstueck and method for applying the same

摘要

An insulation piercing terminal for use with insulation clad wire. The terminal includes a contact portion and a wire gripping portion that is adapted to be crimped onto the wire. The wire gripping portion includes a central elongated wire supporting area defining the bottom support for the wire and a pair of insulation piercing wings having sharp ends. The piercing wings extend outwardly in opposite directions from the wire supporting area around half the wire and meet in the location on top of the wire where they pierce the insulation at the top location so that the ends of the wings extend downwardly into and contact the wire and then bottom on the wire supporting area.PPA method of crimping the above terminal onto the wire including the steps of providing a flat conductive blank, placing the insulation clad wire on the wire supporting area, forming each piercing wing around half the wire so that the ends thereof meet at a location on top of the wire, curling the piercing wings so that the ends thereof point generally downwardly toward the wire supporting area, and inserting the ends of the wings into the wire through the insulation until they bottom on the wire supporting area.