IP Library Granted Patent US 9,972,947
Granted Patent B2
US 9,972,947 · App. 15/661,076 · Granted May 15, 2018

Connector

Inventors: Tetsuya Sekino (Shizuoka, JP); Nobuyuki Sakamoto (Shizuoka, JP)
Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
H01R13/7031
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Patent No.
US 9,972,947
App. No.
15/661,076
Granted
May 15, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A connector includes a first housing, a second housing, a short-circuiting terminal, and a release portion configured to release contact between the first terminals and the contact pieces. The contact piece includes a contact portion provided to be in contact with the first terminal, and a sliding protrusion protruding from the contact portion in a direction intersecting a fitting direction of the housings. The release portion includes a sliding slope sliding on the sliding protrusion to displace the contact piece, a support portion continuously provided with the sliding slope, the support portion coming into contact with the sliding protrusion and holding the contact piece is displaced in a state, and a contact housing portion arranged from the sliding slope and the support portion in a direction crossing a fitting direction of the first housing and the second housing, the contact housing portion housing the contact portion the fitted state.

Claims (16)

1. A connector comprising:

a first housing housing a plurality of first terminals;

a second housing housing a plurality of second terminals connectable to the respective first terminals, the second housing being fittable to the first housing;

a short-circuiting terminal housed in the first housing, the short-circuiting terminal having a contact piece contacting the respective first terminals which are adjacent to each other; and

a release portion provided on the second housing, the release portion displacing the contact piece to release contact between the first terminals and the contact pieces,

wherein the contact piece comprises:

a contact portion provided so as to be in contact with the first terminal; and

a sliding protrusion protruding from the contact portion in a direction intersecting a direction in which the first housing and the second housing are fit together, and

wherein the release portion comprises:

a sliding slope sliding on the sliding protrusion to displace the contact piece when the first housing and the second housing are fit together;

a support portion provided to be continuous with the sliding slope, the support portion coming into contact with the sliding protrusion and holding a state in which the contact piece is displaced in a state where the first housing and the second housing are fit together; and

a contact housing portion arranged from the sliding slope and the support portion in a direction crossing a direction in which the first housing and the second housing are fit together, the contact housing portion housing the contact portion from when fitting of the first housing and the second housing is started until when the fitting is completed.

2. The connector according to claim 1 ,

wherein the contact housing portion is provided with an insulating portion arranged between the contact portion and the first terminal in a state where the first housing and the second housing are fit together.

3. The connector according to claim 1 ,

wherein the release portion comprises a displacement portion arranged on the protruding direction side of the sliding protrusion with respect to the sliding slope, the displacement portion sliding on the sliding protrusion to displace the contact piece in a direction away from the sliding slope when the first housing and the second housing are fit together.

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 Jul 27, 2017
From: SEKINO, TETSUYA; SAKAMOTO, NOBUYUKI
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 043116/0617 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2016-149200 · Jul 29, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180034217A1 · Feb 1, 2018