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Granted Patent B2
US 12,249,819 · App. 18/134,416 · Granted Mar 11, 2025

Electric junction box

Inventors: Masahiro Wada (Makinohara, JP); Takaaki Kakimi (Makinohara, JP); Kazuki Shoji (Makinohara, JP); Kengo Aono (Makinohara, JP)
Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
H02G3/081H02G3/18
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Patent No.
US 12,249,819
App. No.
18/134,416
Granted
Mar 11, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electric junction box is provided. The electric junction box includes a frame configured to accommodate components, and a lower cover assembled to close a lower end opening of the frame. The lower cover includes a first lower cover having a bottom wall, a side wall, and a notch, and a second lower cover having a shape corresponding to the notch and assembled to the first lower cover. The second lower cover includes a side wall, a blow-up preventing wall, and a reinforcing rib.

Claims (18)

1. An electric junction box comprising:

a frame configured to accommodate an electronic component; and

a lower cover assembled to close a lower end opening of the frame, wherein the lower cover includes

a first lower cover including a bottom wall, a side wall standing from a peripheral edge of the bottom wall, and a notch formed by cutting out at least a part of the side wall, and

a second lower cover having a shape corresponding to the notch and configured to be assembled to the first lower cover, and

the second lower cover includes

a side wall constituting a side wall of the lower cover together with the side wall of the first lower cover,

a blow-up preventing wall protruding from an inner face of the side wall of the second lower cover toward the inside of the electric junction box and having a wall surface facing the bottom wall, and

a reinforcing rib provided on the blow-up preventing wall.

2. The electric junction box according to claim 1 , wherein

the reinforcing rib includes

a first rib extending in a protruding direction of the blow-up preventing wall, and

a second rib extending in a direction intersecting the protruding direction.

3. The electric junction box according to claim 1 , wherein

the reinforcing rib is provided on the wall surface facing the bottom wall.

4. The electric junction box according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an electric wire lead-out hole configured to allow an electric wire to be led out from the inside to the outside of the electric junction box, wherein

the electric wire lead-out hole is constituted by the first lower cover and the second lower cover.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 13, 2023
From: WADA, MASAHIRO; KAKIMI, TAKAAKI; SHOJI, KAZUKI; AONO, KENGO
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063319/0348 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-080434 · May 16, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230369836A1 · Nov 16, 2023
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