EP2854228B1 - Borne électrique et procédé de piquage d'une borne électrique dans un matériau de substrat - Google Patents

Borne électrique et procédé de piquage d'une borne électrique dans un matériau de substrat Download PDF

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EP2854228B1
EP2854228B1 EP13186443.1A EP13186443A EP2854228B1 EP 2854228 B1 EP2854228 B1 EP 2854228B1 EP 13186443 A EP13186443 A EP 13186443A EP 2854228 B1 EP2854228 B1 EP 2854228B1
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Stefan Nagel
Michael Walter
Turgay Yilmaz
Wolfgang Müller
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R43/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors
    • H01R43/20—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for assembling or disassembling contact members with insulating base, case or sleeve
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/40—Securing contact members in or to a base or case; Insulating of contact members
    • H01R13/405—Securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting
    • H01R13/41—Securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting by frictional grip in grommet, panel or base
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/58—Means for relieving strain on wire connection, e.g. cord grip, for avoiding loosening of connections between wires and terminals within a coupling device terminating a cable
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/62—Means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts or for holding them in engagement
    • H01R13/629—Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances
    • H01R13/631—Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances for engagement only

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  • the present invention relates to an electrical terminal that is stitched through a connector housing.
  • the present invention relates to an electrical terminal with features causing a rotation of the electrical terminal when being stitched, and the system and method of stitching such an electrical terminal.
  • Electrical terminals are commonly stitched through connector housings or other components towards forming electric connectors or PCBs or the like. Applications where closely-packed electrical terminals are required often opt to have stitched terminals instead of terminals that have other kinds of positioning and holding features. Stitching is also a viable alternative to positioning electrical terminals within a leadframe. Often, the requirement of spacing individual electrical terminals closely together or other requirements of the application to be made to work within a limited amount of available space results in the electrical terminals in question being stitched through the material forming the connector housing. This leads to a saving of space and is advantageous over the requirement of forming individual cavities within a connector housing to receive electrical terminals. Stitching has been used not only for flat-tab like electrical terminals but also for pin-like terminals with square, rectangular or round cross sections. Stamped electrical terminals that are stitched into connector housings are also known.
  • connector housings manufactured in this matter typically have lower pull-out forces required to cause failure of the connector housings.
  • Pull-out forces may be experienced by electrical terminals at any time, and may originate in stitching process related sources, or may be exerted during use by forces pulling on wires that are crimped to the electrical terminal in question. Pull-out forces tend to pull the electrical terminal back through the connector housing into which it has been placed or stitched.
  • Such pull-out forces are typically countered by providing abutment features on the electrical terminals, which increase the area over which the backward force may be distributed, when abutting the connector housing surface through which it was stitched.
  • the problem stems from the fact that when electrical terminals pass through the plastic of the connector housing, they deform and usually damage at least a part of the material surrounding the stitched terminal. Electrical terminals often have a shoulder or nose constructed thereon to spread the force across a wider area of surrounding plastic if subjected to pull-out forces. Any damage caused to the surrounding plastic is generally even higher along the path taken by the shoulder or nose like protrusion formed on the electrical terminal when it is being stitched through the plastic forming the connector housing. This causes the disadvantage that although a given amount of pull-out force spread across the expanse of plastic that it abuts may otherwise not have caused failure, the weakening of the plastic as the electrical terminal and any protrusions formed on it pass through it causes failure at lower forces than expected.
  • Stitching of an electrical terminal through a substrate material such as that forming a connector housing is inherently traumatic for the plastic or other kind of substrate material that the electrical terminal passes through while being stitched.
  • the holding forces exerted by the plastic attempting to re-occupy the space occupied by an electrical terminal stitched through it may be significant, particularly depending upon the properties of the plastic or other substrate material used to form the connector housing. It is however common to use further features that ensure the safe positioning and retention of the electrical terminal within the connector housing. Commonly used features such as shoulders or noses or structures provided on the electrical terminal to increase the effective cross-sectional area of the terminal and correspondingly the volume of plastic that it abuts further exacerbate the trauma caused to the plastic or substrate material forming the connector housing that surrounds the electrical terminal.
  • United States patent US 4, 867, 714 discloses a pin and socket terminal.
  • the socket has a lead-in portion with camming surfaces guiding a lance provided at the pin. Interaction of the camming surfaces and the lance allow for controlling the rotation of the pin as insertion occurs.
  • the number of camming slots sets the number of predetermined invariable final angular positions of the pin.
  • the European patent application EP 2 503 646 A1 discloses a connector with an insertion funnel for orienting an inserted electrical contact with a working principle similar to the solution of the US 4,867,714 that uses an angular coding member which is guided by a non-circular funnel and/or a guiding recess located inside the funnel.
  • the disclosed two final plug positions of the inserted electrical contact are predetermined and invariable.
  • electrical contacts are disclosed which are insertable by press-fitting in a metallized hole.
  • a middle portion of said electrical contacts comprises a spiral structure that may cause the electrical contact to rotate or to be compressed.
  • the electrical terminal described in the introductory part solves the problem according to the invention in that the electrical terminal has at least one terminal rotation protrusion configured along an axis of symmetry of the terminal rotation protrusion, which is offset by an angle from a longitudinal axis of the electrical terminal for causing a rotation of the electrical terminal, i.e.
  • said at least one terminal rotation protrusion has a shoulder facing away from a first axial end being an insertion end of the electrical terminal and facing towards a second axial end of the electrical terminal, wherein the terminal rotation protrusion changes in height gradually from the first axial end of the electrical terminal to the second axial end of the electrical terminal.
  • the terminal rotation protrusion causes the rotation of the electrical terminal during insertion of said electrical terminal through a substrate material forming the connector housing through which it is stitched. The rotation is caused by an appropriately-formed terminal rotation protrusion pushing against the plastic it travels though, and in turn being pushed back by the plastic, resulting in the rotational movement.
  • the electrical terminal may snap back into a relaxed state in which the rotation becomes undone.
  • the shoulder or nose or other abutment features that distribute the pull-out forces borne by the stitched electrical terminal may come to rest against areas of the surrounding plastic that are comparatively undamaged.
  • the degree of rotation of the electrical terminal can be configured by appropriately selecting the shape of the terminal rotation protrusion, taking into consideration the nature and distance of the plastic that the electrical terminal passes through, while being stitched.
  • the above may optimally be selected to result in the terminal rotation protrusion causing at least enough rotation so that when the rotation is undone, any holding shoulders or nose or any similar features come to rest against plastic material that they have not caused any trauma to, while the electrical terminal was being stitched.
  • At least one terminal rotation protrusion may be configured on an external surface of the electrical terminal. Two or more such terminal rotation protrusions may also be provided, with corresponding additive effects.
  • the terminal rotation protrusions may be formed on the external surface of the electrical terminal, so that they are in direct contact with the material forming the connector housing when being stitched through it.
  • the terminal rotation protrusions may be formed on a separate sleeve-like structure that may be mounted onto the electrical terminal being stitched. In such a case, the sleeve may be configured to be removed from a forward direction, once the stitching process has been completed.
  • the one or more terminal rotation protrusions configured along the axis offset from a longitudinal axis of the electrical terminal may be selected depending upon the intended application, depending upon a variety of factors as described above, in order to cause a rotation of the electrical terminal when the latter is stitched through a given plastic material.
  • Availability of more plastic material that the electrical terminal must pass through, i.e. a greater thickness of plastic that the electrical terminal is stitched through, may allow the offset to be of comparatively smaller angles from the longitudinal axis of the electrical terminal.
  • Harder plastic material may also enable gentler offset angles, as the degree of rotation experienced by the electrical terminal may be higher in such cases.
  • the angle of the terminal rotation protrusion may need to be made higher.
  • the suitable angles would go from almost coaxial at the lower end up to higher angles where the terminal rotation protrusion itself causes too high a barrier of entry into the plastic material when being stitched into the connector housing.
  • the angle formed by the axis of the one or more terminal rotation protrusions with respect to the longitudinal axis of the electrical terminal may be between 5° and 60°. The exact angle may vary in this range, depending upon the particulars of the application as described above and the nature and size of the connector housing itself.
  • the terminal rotation protrusion is configured to have a change in its height as measured from an external surface of the electrical terminal onto which it is formed or provided by means of a sleeve affixed onto an electrical terminal. Such a change may be gradual and along the full longitudinal length of the terminal rotation protrusion.
  • particular types of plastic material may require a greater deformative force initially but may succumb to even lower forces later in the insertion process.
  • Other application may require the force being exerted by the terminal rotation protrusion changing at certain stages while going through the stitching process.
  • the force being exerted by the terminal rotation protrusion onto the plastic corresponds with the force that is available to rotate the electrical terminal, by way of translation from an insertion force into a rotational force. This rotational force can therefore be administered and configured by suitably forming the terminal rotation protrusion.
  • the rotation protrusion changes in height gradually from the first axial or front or insertion end of the electrical terminal to the second axial or rear end of the electrical terminal.
  • the terminal rotation protrusion may be provided along the full longitudinal length of the electrical terminal, or may indeed be provided along only a part of the longitudinal length of the electrical terminal. In any case, the gradual change in the height of the terminal rotation protrusion may enable a comparatively constant or constantly changing force acting on the electrical terminal. This force acting on the electrical terminal would tend to rotate the electrical terminal as it passes through the plastic or other material that the connector housing may be formed of.
  • the one or more rotation protrusions may be formed having a semi-circular cross section.
  • the semi-circular cross sections may be increasing in diameter from a first axial or front or insertion end of the electrical terminal to a second axial or rear end of the electrical terminal. This would result in a kind of 'nose' being formed on the outside surface of the electrical terminal or sleeve affixed onto an electrical terminal.
  • Such a design may be preferable as it may tend to cause least trauma such as scratching or cracking or other types of breakage in the plastic that it passes through. The avoidance of sharp edges in such a design would contribute to reduced trauma experienced by the plastic material it passes through.
  • the nature of the plastic material or the available thickness thereof may require the one or more rotation protrusion to be formed as a flat or triangular surface.
  • a flat or triangular surface forming a terminal rotation protrusion may increase in height along the longitudinal direction.
  • Such an increasing height would form the terminal rotation protrusion as a slope along at least a part of an outer surface of the electrical terminal, from a first axial end that may be the front, insertion end of the electrical terminal to a second axial or rear end of the electrical terminal.
  • the one or more rotation protrusions have the shoulder facing away from the first axial or front or insertion end of the electrical terminal and facing towards a second axial or rear end of the electrical terminal.
  • a stop surface or shoulder would help to spread the forces across a wider area of plastic, once the electrical terminal has been stitched through the plastic or other material forming the connector housing, and the stop surface or shoulder comes to rest on the connector housing.
  • a force tending to pull the terminal out would be countered by the combined effort of the holding forces exerted by the plastic material onto the electrical terminal as well as the mechanical abutment forces provided by the area of the connector housing abutted by the stop surface or shoulder.
  • a stop surface may be formed by an edge of the metal sheet forming the one or more terminal rotation protrusion, at its greatest height. This greatest height from the body of the electrical terminal would work to encompass a large area of the plastic or other material that the electrical terminal is stitched through, to provide the greatest degree of spreading of a force if a pull-out force is exerted on the electrical terminal or the cable to which it is crimped before being stitched through the connector housing.
  • the stop surface may also be formed by a stepped surface formed on one or more of the terminal rotation protrusions along the axis of the at least one protrusion.
  • a system for stitching an electrical terminal through a substrate material may be provided.
  • the crimping of the electrical terminals would be done onto a wire, which may be insulated or not, depending upon the requirements of the application.
  • the electrical terminal is an electrical terminal according to the present invention.
  • a substrate material may form, for example, a connector housing. It would be obvious that the substrate material may form any appropriate part, depending upon the requirements of the final use of the electrical terminal.
  • the material forming the substrate that the electrical terminal is stitched through should enable the stitching process to be accomplished without causing mechanical breakage in the substrate material. Further, the properties of the substrate material should at least partially tend to bring the substrate material back to its initial position once it is pressed aside.
  • the system has a holder that is capable of holding the electrical terminal during the stitching process. Due to rotational forces that may be generated during the stitching process as the electrical terminal is stitched through the substrate material, such a holder is configured to allow the rotation of the electrical terminal as it passes through the substrate material that may form a connector housing. This may be accomplished by the provision of appropriate features on the holder itself that allow its rotation, along with the terminal that it holds. This may allow features such as terminal rotation protrusions provided on the electrical terminal to cause the rotational forces that in turn rotate the electrical terminal.
  • the holder may be configured to be stationary during the stitching process, but may hold the wire that the electrical terminal is crimped onto at a far enough distance from the terminal. Appropriate selection of this distance may allow the holder to remain capable of holding the electrical terminal while the latter is being stitched, while allowing the electrical terminal to rotate by virtue of the flexibility of the insulation or wire or suitable parts of the electrical terminal itself.
  • the holder may allow the rotation of the electrical terminal by holding the electrical terminal at a position suitable for allowing the flexibility of the electrical terminal to enable the rotation of the electrical terminal.
  • the flexibility may originate either in certain appropriately formed features of the electrical terminal itself, or may be enabled by the other components such as wire or insulation or any possible combination thereof.
  • the holder may be provided with a rotation means that allows the holder to rigidly hold the electrical terminal while the holder itself is rotated along with the electrical terminal as the latter is being stitched through the substrate.
  • the electrical terminal may also be a crimped electrical terminal.
  • a method of stitching an electrical terminal, optionally a crimped electrical terminal, into a substrate material may be provided.
  • the method may include steps such as positioning the electrical terminal in a pre-assembly position near a substrate material into which it is intended to be stitched, followed by the step of inserting the electrical terminal through the substrate material forming, for example, a connector housing so that the electrical terminal goes from being in the pre-assembled position to ending up in the inserted position.
  • the method may include enabling the rotation of the electrical terminal when the electrical terminal is between the pre-assembled and the inserted position by at least one terminal rotation protrusion which is configured along an axis of symmetry of the terminal rotation protrusion, which is offset by an angle from a longitudinal axis of the electrical terminal, wherein said at least one terminal rotation protrusion has a shoulder facing away from a first axial end of the electrical terminal and facing towards a second axial end of the electrical terminal.
  • the rotation of the electrical terminal may be achieved by a variety of well methods.
  • the rotation may result from the springing back of the electrical terminal into a relaxed state.
  • the excited state may have been reached by the rotation of the electrical terminal during insertion, where the rotation may itself have been caused by terminal rotation features having been present on the electrical terminal.
  • the direction of movement into a relaxed state may be expected to be opposite to the direction of rotation that the electrical terminal may experience during the stitching process, wherein said at least one terminal rotation protrusion has a shoulder facing away from a first axial end being an insertion end of the electrical terminal and facing towards a second axial end of the electrical terminal, said shoulder being freed of the substrate material and ends up against a part of the substrate forming a forward surface once the terminal is stitched.
  • the rotation of the electrical terminal may be caused also by the application of a rotational force on the crimped electrical terminal, once it has been stitched through the substrate material.
  • a rotational force may help to correct situations where insufficient rotation of the electrical terminal may have occurred, while it was stitched through the substrate material. This could also be useful where the amount of substrate material available for the electrical terminal to pass through does not enable the requisite degree of rotation required.
  • Fig. 1 shows an electrical terminal 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the electrical terminal 1 has a terminal rotation protrusion 5 provided on its outer body surface.
  • the axis of the terminal rotation protrusion 5 is offset from the longitudinal axis Q of the electrical terminal 1.
  • the terminal rotation protrusion 5 has an axis of symmetry along a direction P, which forms and angle A with the direction Q as shown.
  • Such an electrical terminal 1 when stitched through a substrate such as the plastic material forming a connector housing will experience rotational forces acting upon the electrical terminal 1. Such rotational forces would tend to rotate the electrical terminal 1 by a degree corresponding with the angle A and the amount of substrate that the electrical terminal 1 passes through.
  • the terminal rotation protrusion 5 culminates in a shoulder 10 that is formed at the greatest height of the electrical terminal 1, at the rear end of the terminal rotation protrusion 5.
  • Figs. 2a shows a schematic perspective view of an embodiment of a connector housing 2 suitable for receiving a crimped electrical terminal 1 according to the present invention.
  • the crimped electrical terminal 1 is inserted into a cavity 20 formed in the connector housing 2.
  • the width of the combined features of the crimped electrical terminal 1 would equal the width of the available space in the connector housing 2 through which the crimped electrical terminal 1 must be stitched. As an example, such a situation may be considered to be reached at position 25, where the two above mentioned widths or cross-sections become equal.
  • the terminal rotation protrusion 5 abuts and interacts with the substrate material forming the connector housing.
  • a rotational force is exerted upon the electrical terminal as it passes through the connector housing 2. This rotation continues till the rear end or shoulder 10 of the terminal rotation protrusion 5 clears a forward surface 30 of the connector housing 2, causing the terminal to be rotated along the direction R. This results in the terminal rotation protrusion 5 and other features on the electrical terminal to rotate away from the positions they may have emerged in, had the stitching process only involved a straight forward movement.
  • Fig 3a shows a schematic perspective view of an embodiment of a connector housing 2
  • Fig 3b shows this connector housing 2 receiving a crimped electrical terminal 1 according to the present invention, shown in an inserted position.

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  1. Borne électrique (1) comportant au moins une protubérance de rotation de borne (5) configurée selon un axe de symétrie de la protubérance de rotation de borne (5), qui est décalée d'un certain angle par rapport à l'axe longitudinal de la borne électrique (1) pour provoquer une rotation de la borne électrique (1) durant l'insertion de ladite borne électrique (1) à travers un matériau formant un boîtier de connecteur (2), dans laquelle ladite au moins une protubérance de rotation de borne (5) comporte un épaulement (10) qui est orienté à l'opposé d'une première extrémité axiale, qui est une extrémité d'insertion de la borne électrique (1), et est orienté vers une deuxième extrémité axiale de la borne électrique, dans laquelle la protubérance de rotation de borne (5) change graduellement de hauteur depuis la première extrémité axiale de la borne électrique (1) jusqu'à la deuxième extrémité axiale de la borne électrique (1).
  2. Borne électrique (1) selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que ladite au moins une protubérance de rotation de borne (5) est configurée sur une surface externe de la borne électrique, et ladite surface externe est adaptée pour être en contact direct avec le matériau formant le boîtier de connecteur (2).
  3. Borne électrique (1) selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans laquelle l'angle formé par l'axe de ladite au moins une protubérance de rotation de borne (5) par rapport à l'axe longitudinal de la borne électrique (1) est compris entre 5° et 60°.
  4. Borne électrique (1) selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, dans laquelle ladite au moins une protubérance de rotation (5) est formée avec une section transversale semi-circulaire, ladite section transversale semi-circulaire augmentant de diamètre depuis la première extrémité axiale de la borne électrique (1) jusqu'à la deuxième extrémité axiale de la borne électrique (1).
  5. Borne électrique (1) selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, dans laquelle ladite au moins une protubérance de rotation de borne (5) est conformée comme une surface plane ou triangulaire qui augmente en hauteur pour former une pente sur au moins une partie de la surface externe de la borne électrique (1) depuis la première extrémité axiale de la borne électrique (1) jusqu'à la deuxième extrémité axiale de la borne électrique (1).
  6. Borne électrique (1) selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, dans laquelle ledit moyen de rotation de borne est formé sur un manchon séparé fixé sur la borne électrique (1).
  7. Borne électrique (1) selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6, dans laquelle ledit épaulement (10) est formé par un bord de la feuille métallique qui constitue ladite au moins une protubérance de rotation de borne (5) à sa plus grande hauteur.
  8. Système de couture d'une borne électrique (1) à travers un matériau de substrat (2), caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend
    a. une borne électrique (1) selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7 ; et
    b. un support configuré pour supporter ladite borne électrique (1) durant le processus de couture, ledit support étant en outre configuré pour permettre la rotation de la borne électrique (1) lorsqu'elle traverse le matériau de substrat (2).
  9. Système selon la revendication 8, dans lequel le support permet la rotation de la borne électrique (1) selon au moins une façon parmi : le maintien de la borne électrique (1) par le support dans une position adaptée pour autoriser une flexibilité de la borne électrique (1) afin de permettre la rotation de la borne électrique, et un moyen de rotation pourvu sur le support, qui permet au support de supporter rigidement la borne électrique (1) alors que le support lui-même est mis en rotation conjointement à la borne électrique (1).
  10. Procédé de couture d'une borne électrique (1) dans un matériau de substrat (2), comprenant les étapes suivantes :
    a. positionnement de la borne électrique (1) dans une position de préassemblage,
    b. insertion de la borne électrique (1) à travers le matériau de substrat (2) de manière à ce que la borne électrique (1) soit déplacée depuis la position de préassemblage jusqu'à la position insérée, et
    c. habilitation de la rotation de la borne électrique (1) entre la position préassemblée et la position insérée par au moins une protubérance de rotation de borne (5) configurée le long d'un axe de symétrie de la protubérance de rotation de borne (5), qui est décalée d'un certain angle par rapport à l'axe longitudinal de la borne électrique, dans lequel ladite au moins une protubérance de rotation de borne (5) comporte un épaulement (10) orienté à l'opposé d'une première extrémité axiale qui est une extrémité d'insertion de la borne électrique (1) et vers une deuxième extrémité axiale de la borne électrique, et dans lequel la protubérance de rotation de borne (5) change graduellement de hauteur depuis la première extrémité axiale de la borne électrique (1) jusqu'à la deuxième extrémité axiale de la borne électrique (1).
  11. Procédé selon la revendication 10, dans lequel la rotation de ladite borne électrique (1) est obtenue selon au moins une façon parmi :
    c. le rebondissement de la borne électrique (1) dans un état détendu, l'état excité ayant été atteint par la rotation (R) de la borne électrique (1) durant l'insertion, la direction de déplacement dans un état détendu (S) étant opposée à la direction de déplacement de la borne électrique (1) durant le processus de couture, dans lequel l'épaulement (10) est libéré du matériau de substrat (2) et termine contre une partie du substrat (2) formant une surface avant une fois que la borne (1) est cousue ; ou
    d. l'application d'une force de rotation sur la borne électrique sertie (1).
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