Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Autonetworks Technologies, Limited

Atsushi Murata

Kazuaki Hamada

Junichi Ono

Yusuke Kojima

Housei Mizuno

Hidetoshi Ishida

Yasuyuki Yamamoto

Yutaka Takata

Masamichi Yamagiwa

Osamu Sato

Yukihiro Shirafuji

Makoto Kamiya

Satoshi Tanigawa

Shinichi Igarashi

Nobumasa Takihara

Hiroto Ueno

A shielded electrically conductive path is provided with a shield terminal including an inner conductor and an outer conductor surrounding the inner conductor, a shielded cable including a core wire fixed to a rear end part of the inner conductor, a braided wire surrounding the core wire and a sheath surrounding the braided wire, and a sleeve mounted on an outer periphery of a front end part of the sheath. In a front end part of the shielded cable, the braided wire extending from a front end of the sheath is folded rearward and put on an outer periphery of the sleeve and a crimping portion in a rear end part of the outer conductor is crimped to the sleeve while surrounding an outer periphery of a folded portion of the braided wire.

Shielded electrically conductive cable connector

It is aimed to reduce a diameter. A shielded electrically conductive path is provided with a shielded cable configured such that a core wire is surrounded with a shield layer, and a shield terminal including an inner conductor to be connected to the core wire and an outer conductor formed with a crimping portion in the form of an open barrel. The crimping portion includes a first crimp portion formed with a projection-like first locking portion and a second crimp portion formed with a second locking portion, and is crimped to an outer surface of the shield layer with the first locking portion locked to the second locking portion. A locking margin of the first locking portion and the second locking portion in a radial direction is within a plate thickness range of the second crimp portion.

Shielded electrically conductive path

A female connector structure is provided with a shielded cable configured such that an outer periphery of a coated wire including a core and an insulation coating is surrounded by a braided wire, a female terminal including a wire barrel and a connecting tube portion continuous with the wire barrel and to be connected to a mating terminal, an insulating dielectric, a front outer conductor including a front tube portion and a dielectric locking portion to be locked to at least a part of the dielectric, and a rear outer conductorincluding a rear tube portion for surrounding the outer periphery of the coated wireexposed from the braided wire, a shield crimping portion to be crimped to the braided wire from outside and a front outer conductor crimping portion to be crimped to the dielectric locking portion from outside.

Connector structure and connector structure manufacturing method

A female connector structure is provided with a shielded cable configured such that an outer periphery of a coated wire including a core and an insulation coating is surrounded by a braided wire, a female terminal including a wire barrel to be connected to the core and a connecting tube portion and to be connected to a mating terminal, an insulating dielectric for surrounding an outer periphery of the connecting tube portion of the female terminal, a rear outer conductor including a shield connecting portion to be electrically connected to the braided wire and a dielectric crimping portion to be crimped to at least a part of the dielectric from outside, and a front outer conductor including a front tube portion for surrounding an outer periphery of the dielectric and a rear outer conductor locking portion for locking at least a part of the dielectric crimping portion from outside.

Connector structure, and connector structure manufacturing method

A female connector structure is provided with a shielded cable configured such that an outer periphery of a coated wire including a core and an insulation coating is surrounded by a braided wire, a female terminal including a wire barrel and a connecting tube portion and to be connected to a mating terminal, an insulating dielectric for surrounding an outer periphery of the connecting tube portion, and an outer conductor including a shield connecting portion, the outer conductor surrounding at least the coated wire. A part of the outer conductor corresponding to the coated wire exposed from the braided wire is formed with a projecting portion by causing a part of an inner surface of the outer conductor to project from other parts radially inwardly of the outer conductor, and an outer surface of the outer conductor is not depressed radially inwardly of the outer conductor.

Connector structure

A crimping portion () of a connection structure of a shielded wire () includes a base plate () along an outer periphery of the shielded wire (). A first crimping piece () is cantilevered from a first side of the base plate () and is crimped to surround the shielded wire (). A second crimping piece () is cantilevered in a direction opposite the first crimping piece () from a second side of the base plate () and is crimped to surround the shielded wire (). A restricting portion () is disposed along the outer periphery of the shielded wire (). First locking portions () of the first crimping piece () and second locking portions () of the second crimping piece () lock the restricting portion () in directions opposite to each other along the circumferential direction.

Wire crimping structure and shielded conductive path

A shielded cable/terminal assembly includes a shielded cable () with a braided wire () between wires () and an outer sheath (). The braided wire () has a folded portion () formed by folding the braided wire () exposed from an end of the outer sheath () toward the outer sheath (). A metal sleeve () is crimped to an outer surface of the outer sheath () inside the folded portion () in a radial direction of the shielded cable (). A terminal () has a barrel () configured to sandwich the folded portion () between the sleeve () and the barrel (), with the barrel () crimped to an outer surface of the folded portion (). The barrel () has protrusions () projecting radially inward of the shielded cable () at positions behind a rear part of the sleeve () in an axial direction.

Shielded cable with terminal

A protective member-attached wire is provided with: an electric wire; and a protective member that is made of a sheet-shaped nonwoven member and is wrapped around the electric wire to cover the electric wire. The protective member includes: a first portion obtained by heating a portion of the nonwoven member; and a second portion that is softer than the first portion of the nonwoven member. The first portion and the second portion are each distributed over the entire circumference of the electric wire in a circumferential direction of the electric wire, and are distributed over the entire protective member in a longitudinal direction of the electric wire.

Protective member-attached wire and protective member

A wire harness has an exterior component () that covers a certain part of at least one wires (). The exterior component () has parts having different hardness, including a relatively hard first part (), a relatively soft second part (), and a third part () having an intermediate hardness between that of the first parts (). The first part is formed on a surface of the exterior component and functions as a shape keeping member and a protector. The second and third parts () surround the certain part of the at least one wireand each functions as a cushioning material and a muffler/soundproofing material. The first part (), the second part (), and the third part () are formed integrally from a non-woven fabric () with thermo plasticity.

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Mie, Japan

Atsushi Murata