Patent 7581979 was granted and assigned to Yazaki on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention is to provide a terminal and a mounting method thereof, which can fit in a conductor of a flat circuit device without increase in cost. A FFC has a conductor of a belt-shape and a covering portion for covering the conductor. The conductor has a groove along a longitudinal direction thereon, and is fixed in a terminal by placing on a bottom wall sandwiched between a pair of crimping pieces of the terminal and by crimping the pair of the crimping pieces.