Connector housing, connector housing marking method, and method of inserting terminal metal fitting into connector housing
View Patent ↗An object of this invention is to provide a connector housing which can be prevented a terminal-receiving chamber from receiving a wrong metal terminal. A connector housing 1 comprises a plurality of terminal-receiving chambers 20 and a plurality of marks 21 . The terminal-receiving chamber 20 receives a male terminal 3 . Electric wire 2 is attached to the male terminal 3 . A mark 6 is formed on an outer surface 5 a of the electric wire 2 . A color of the mark 6 of one electric wire 2 is a first color R. A color of the mark 6 of the other electric wire 2 is a second color G. The first color R is different from the second color G. The mark 21 corresponds to each terminal-receiving chamber 20 . A color of one mark 21 is the first color R, which is the same as the color of the mark 6 of the one electric wire 2 . A color of the other mark 21 is the second color G, which is the same as the color of the mark 6 of the other electric wire 2 . By forming the mark 21 in a same color as the mark 6 of the electric wire 2 attached to the male terminal 3 which is to be inserted into the terminal-receiving chamber 20 corresponding to the mark 21 , the mark 21 indicates the male terminal 3 to be received by the terminal-receiving chamber 20 corresponding to the mark 21.
1. A connector housing comprising:
a bottom wall, ceiling wall, pair of side walls and a plurality of partition walls which form a plurality of terminal-receiving chambers for receiving a metal terminal,
wherein a mark is provided on an outer surface of a said wall of the connector housing corresponding to each terminal-receiving chamber, on a surface of said wall flush with an opening of the terminal-receiving chamber and indicates a specified metal terminal to be received by said corresponding terminal-receiving chamber; and each terminal chamber has an inner surface, and a mark is provided on an end of the inner surface, within the terminal chamber, near the opening of the inner surface of the terminal-receiving chamber.
2. A method of marking a connector housing comprising the steps of:
providing a connector housing having a bottom wall, ceiling wall, pair of side walls and a plurality of partition walls which form a plurality of terminal-receiving chambers for receiving a metal terminal, each of the terminal-receiving chambers having an inner surface;
forming a mark on a surface of a said wall flush with an opening of the terminal-receiving chambers, corresponding to each terminal-receiving chamber for indicating a specified metal terminal to be received by the mating terminal-receiving chamber corresponding to the mark,
wherein said step of forming the marks is achieved by jetting a specified volume of coloring agent toward the connector housing to deposit the coloring agent on the connector housing, and forming a mark on the inner surface, within the terminal chamber, near an opening of the inner surface of the terminal-receiving chamber.
3. A method of inserting a metal terminal into a connector housing comprising the steps of:
providing a connecting housing having a bottom wall, ceiling wall, pair of side walls and a plurality of partition walls which form a plurality of terminal-receiving chambers having an inner surface;
marking a plurality of marks, each of which is provided on an outer surface of a said wall of the connector housing at each terminal-receiving chamber, on a surface of said wall flush with an opening of the terminal-receiving chambers and at an end of the inner surface, within the terminal chamber, near the opening of the inner surface of the terminal-receiving chamber, and indicates a specified metal terminal to be received by the mating terminal-receiving chamber corresponding to the marks; and
inserting the specified metal terminal to the mating terminal-receiving chamber corresponding to the marks through the opening.