IP Library Granted Patent US 11,245,220
Granted Patent B2
US 11,245,220 · App. 16/960,429 · Granted Feb 8, 2022

Connector including sandwiched configuration

Inventors: Daisuke Ebata (Mie, JP); Motohiro Yokoi (Mie, JP); Shigeki Ikeda (Mie, JP); Ryuta Takakura (Mie, JP); Tetsuya Nishimura (Mie, JP); Haruka Nakano (Mie, JP); Kenta Arai (Mie, JP); Yasuo Omori (Mie, JP)
Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.; SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.; SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
H01R13/506H01R13/514H01R13/56
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Patent No.
US 11,245,220
App. No.
16/960,429
Granted
Feb 8, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a connector including: at least one plate-like housing body; a plurality of groove-like terminal housing chambers each opened in an upper surface of the housing body and parallelly arranged; a plurality of connection terminals provided at ends of a plurality of electrical wirings and housed and disposed in the terminal housing chambers, respectively; an electrical wiring support part supporting the plurality of electrical wirings extending from a back end side opening part of the terminal housing chambers; a sheet-like reinforced member which is placed on an upper surface of the electrical wiring support part and the plurality of electrical wirings are fixed to in a state of parallelly arranged; and a cover part overlapping with the upper surface of the housing body to cover the terminal housing chambers and sandwiching the sheet-like reinforced member between the cover part and the electrical wiring support part.

Claims (31)

1. A connector, comprising:

at least one plate-like housing body, wherein the housing body includes:

a plurality of groove-like terminal housing chambers each provided at a front end side of the housing body in a length direction, opened in an upper surface of the housing body, and arranged parallel to house a plurality of connection terminals provided at ends of a plurality of electrical wirings, and

an electrical wiring support part provided at a back end side of the housing body in a length direction to support the plurality of electrical wirings extending from a back end side opening part of the terminal housing chambers;

a sheet-like reinforced member which is placed on an upper surface of the electrical wiring support part, and the plurality of electrical wirings are fixed to the sheet-like reinforced member in a parallel arrangement; and

a cover part overlapping with the upper surface of the housing body to cover the terminal housing chambers and sandwiching the sheet-like reinforced member between the cover part and the electrical wiring support part, wherein

a positioning protrusion is provided on the upper surface of the electrical wiring support part or a lower surface of the cover part, and

the sheet-like reinforced member has a positioning hole into which the positioning protrusion is fitted, and the positioning protrusion is fitted into the positioning hole to fix the sheet-like reinforced member to the upper surface of the electrical wiring support part.

2. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein

a plurality of groove-like electrical wiring housing grooves connected to the back end side opening part of the terminal housing chambers and opened on the back end side of the housing body are opened in the upper surface of the electrical wiring support part and arranged parallel in the upper surface of the electrical wiring support part.

3. The connector according to claim 2 , wherein

the plurality of terminal housing chambers is configured to house the plurality of connection terminals from a side of the upper surface of the housing body, respectively,

the plurality of electrical wiring housing grooves is configured to house the plurality of electrical wirings from the side of the upper surface of the housing body, respectively, and

the cover part sandwiches a portion of the plurality of electrical wirings of the sheet-like reinforced member fixed in the parallel arrangement with the electrical wiring support part.

4. The connector according to claim 2 , wherein

the plurality of connection terminals are housed in the plurality of terminal housing chambers, respectively, and the plurality of electrical wirings are housed in the plurality of electrical wiring housing grooves in a condition of being fixed to the sheet-like reinforced member and supported by the electrical wiring support part.

5. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein

the cover part and the housing body are mutually locked and fitted by a lock mechanism provided on a side wall, and

the lock mechanism is provided in a position different from the positioning protrusion in a longitudinal direction of the housing body.

6. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein

the plurality of connection terminals are crimped to the ends of the plurality of electrical wirings.

7. A connector, comprising:

at least one plate-like housing body, wherein the housing body includes:

a plurality of groove-like terminal housing chambers each provided at a front end side of the housing body in a length direction, opened in an upper surface of the housing body, and arranged parallel to house a plurality of connection terminals provided at ends of a plurality of electrical wirings, and

an electrical wiring support part provided at a back end side of the housing body in a length direction to support the plurality of electrical wirings extending from a back end side opening part of the terminal housing chambers;

a sheet-like reinforced member which is placed on an upper surface of the electrical wiring support part, and the plurality of electrical wirings are fixed to the sheet-like reinforced member in a parallel arrangement; and

a cover part overlapping with the upper surface of the housing body to cover the terminal housing chambers and sandwiching the sheet-like reinforced member between the cover part and the electrical wiring support part, wherein

a positioning protrusion is provided on the upper surface of the electrical wiring support part or a lower surface of the cover part,

the sheet-like reinforced member has a positioning hole into which the positioning protrusion is fitted, and the positioning protrusion is fitted into the positioning hole to fix the sheet-like reinforced member to the upper surface of the electrical wiring support part,

more than one of the housing body being vertically stacked in layers and including a housing body on an upper side and a housing body on a lower side, a lower surface of the housing body on the upper side overlapping with the housing body on the lower side constitutes a middle cover part overlapping with the upper surface of the housing body on the lower side, covering each of the terminal housing chambers, and sandwiching the sheet-like reinforced member between the middle cover part and the electrical wiring support part, and

a second positioning concave part into which a positioning protrusion, which is provided to protrude from the electrical wiring support part in the housing body on the lower side, when fitted is provided at the middle cover part, and the housing bodies vertically stacked are positioned and fixed by fitting the positioning protrusion into the second positioning concave part.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 7, 2020
From: EBATA, DAISUKE; YOKOI, MOTOHIRO; IKEDA, SHIGEKI; TAKAKURA, RYUTA; NISHIMURA, TETSUYA; NAKANO, HARUKA; ARAI, KENTA; OMORI, YASUO
To: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.; SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.; SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2018-007953 · Jan 22, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200373702A1 · Nov 26, 2020
Cited By (1)
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