TERMINATION AND TERMINATOR FOR RIBBON CONDUCTORS

摘要

An electrical terminal for flat cable comprising first and second metal plate portions having a cable penetrating tab-like lance with parallel opposite edge portions and a socket aligned with the lance or respectively, the socket having lips pushed out of the plane of the plate portion and converging towards their free ends to define a slot-form lance receiving mouth. During termination, the cable will be penetrated by the lance and a portion of the cable conductor will be drawn into the mouth by the lance and compressed between and in direct contact with a face of the lance and one lip. A portion of the cable is deformed during termination, into an aperture provided in the first metal plate during formation of the lance and ribbon conductor material is displaced from between the face of the lance or and one lip further into the socket.