IP Library Granted Patent US 9,184,542
Granted Patent B2
US 9,184,542 · App. 14/240,088 · Granted Nov 10, 2015

Connector cover regulating rib and groove

Inventors: Chieko Torii (Makinohara, JP); Takuya Hasegawa (Fujieda, JP); Nozomi Tsurukubo (Fujieda, JP)
Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
H01R13/639H01R13/5829
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Patent No.
US 9,184,542
App. No.
14/240,088
Granted
Nov 10, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A connector with a cover ( 1 ) includes a connector housing ( 11 ) and a cover ( 21 ) fitted in the connector housing. The connector housing has a regulating rib ( 16 ) provided projecting in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction where the fitted cover is pulled away from the connector housing. The cover has a regulating groove ( 26 ) that is formed into a shape corresponding to the regulating rib, and into which the regulating rib is inserted when the cover is fitted in the connector housing. The regulating rib is formed to become larger in width in the first direction from a base end toward a tip in the second direction. Release of the fitting of the cover in the connector housing is regulated by the regulating groove and the regulating rib inserted into the regulating groove in a state where the cover is fitted in the connector housing.

Claims (15)

1. A connector with a cover comprising:

a connector housing that houses a terminal connected to an electric wire; and

the cover that is fitted in the connector housing and covers the electric wire pulled out from the connector housing,

wherein

one member of the connector housing and the cover has a regulating rib projecting from the one member in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction where the cover fitted in the connector housing is pulled away from the connector housing,

the regulating rib extending in a straight line in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction,

the other member of the connector housing and the cover has a regulating groove that is formed into a shape corresponding to the regulating rib, and that receives the regulating rib inserted from the third direction when the cover is fitted in the connector housing,

the regulating rib is formed to become larger in width in the first direction from a base end toward a tip in the second direction, and

release of the fitting of the cover in the connector housing is regulated by the regulating groove and the regulating rib inserted into the regulating groove in a state where the cover is fitted in the connector housing.

2. The connector with a cover according to claim 1 , wherein

the one member has a guide rib that is provided extending in parallel with the regulating rib in the third direction of the regulating rib, and that is provided projecting from the one member in the second direction,

the other member has a guide groove that receives the guide rib inserted from the third direction when the cover is fitted in the connector housing, and

a cross-sectional shape of the regulating rib cut by a flat surface perpendicular to the third direction is different from a cross-sectional shape of the guide rib cut by the flat surface perpendicular to the third direction.

3. The connector with a cover according to claim 2 , wherein

the guide groove has a pressing rib that is provided projecting from an inner wall surface of the guide groove, and that, in contact with one side surface of the guide rib in a width direction of the guide rib, presses the other side surface of the guide rib in the width direction of the guide rib against an inner wall surface of the guide groove.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 5, 2023
From: YAZAKI CORPORATION
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063845/0802 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 24, 2014
From: TORII, CHIEKO; HASEGAWA, TAKUYA; TSURUKUBO, NOZOMI
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 032507/0228 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2011-182296 · Aug 24, 2011 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20140206242A1 · Jul 24, 2014