Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Autonetworks Technologies, Limited

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Sumitomo Wiring System, Ltd.

Sumitomo Wiring, Ltd.

Hajime Kawase

Ryotaro Ishikawa

Masaaki Tabata

Yuuichi Nankou

Yutaka Kobayashi

Yutaka Noro

Satoru Nishide

Keiichi Nakamura

Hajime Matsui

Teruo Hara

Hideto Nakamura

Takeshi Tsuji

Naoya Kurimoto

Yukihiro Fukatsu

Hiroki Kobayashi

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Takahiro Yoneda

Osamu Sasai

Osamu Taniuchi

Shinsuke Tsutsui

Yasunori Wada

Yasuo Omori

Tetsuya Miyamura

Hitoshi Okumura

Shinya Fujita

Hikaru Ito

Toshikazu Sakurai

Shunya Takeuchi

Youichi Nankoh

Kaoru Watanabe

Kiyofumi Ichida

Ryo Sawada

Hiroyuki Nakata

Ken Yoshimura

Kozue Takatsuki

Takeshi Amakawa

Takeshi Misaiji

Yutaka Nora

Makoto Fukamachi

Hiroki Osawa

Hisashi Kojima

Nobuhiro Suzuki

Shozo Hamakita

Hirokazu Matsuda

Hiroki Hirai

Hiroki Shimoda

Nori Inoue

Junichi Ono

Yoshihiro Mizutani

Masashi Saito

Takafumi Kishi

Masahide Hio

Osamu Ito

Eiji Saijo

Hajime Okada

Hisashi Konoya

Hideki Matsunaga

Takuji Otsuka

Takuya Inoue

Satoshi Morikawa

Kenji Makino

Takamaru Amano

Junji Muta

Takehiro Nakata

Akira Nabeshima

Pipatthana Phatiwuttipat

Yuichi Nankoh

Mikiko Kosaka

Takeshi Kawasumi

Yutaka Yokoyama

Kazuhisa Kondo

A terminal to be connected to a front end part of a wire in an extending direction is provided with a terminal body for sandwiching the wire, and a slide member slidable with respect to the terminal body along the extending direction of the wire. The terminal body is formed by a worked metal plate material and includes a sandwiching portion for sandwiching the wire. The sandwiching portion includes a first holding protrusion formed by folding the metal plate material on a side edge intersecting the extending direction of the wire, projecting toward the wire and configured to contact the wire and a second holding protrusion formed to be located forward of the first holding protrusion in the extending direction of the wire by folding the metal plate material on a side edge along the extending direction of the wire, projecting toward the wire and configured to contact the wire.

Terminal and wire with terminal

A joint connectorfor electrically connecting a plurality of wiresincludes a housingand a joint terminalto be disposed in the housing. The joint terminalincludes a plurality of branch portionsarranged along an arrangement direction, a plurality of wire connecting portionsrespectively continuous with the plurality of branch portionsand to be connected to the plurality of wires, and a coupling portionfor electrically connecting the plurality of branch portionsby coupling the plurality of branch portions. The coupling portionis in the form of a plate extending in the arrangement direction and is bent. The coupling portionis engaged with the housing

Joint connector including branch portions and coupling portion

A connector includes a terminal connected to a front end portion of an electric wire and a housing in which the terminal is arranged. The housing includes a base portion and cover members. The electric wire extending rearward from a portion of the housing that has the terminal therein is disposed on the base portion. The cover members that are movable between a position in which the cover members cover the base portion and a position in which the cover members are away from the base portion. The cover members include a wire pressing portion that presses the electric wire disposed on the base portion toward the base portion when the cover members are in the position in which the cover members cover the base portion.

Connector

A joint connector for connecting a plurality of wires includes a plurality of terminals to be respectively connected to front end parts in an extending direction of the plurality of wires, a busbar to be connected to the plurality of terminals, and a housing for accommodating the plurality of terminals and the busbar inside. The busbar includes a plurality of tabs and a coupling portion coupling the plurality of tabs. Each of the plurality of terminals includes a tube portion, each of the plurality of tabs being insertable into the tube portion, a sandwiching portion extending along the extending direction and configured to sandwich the wire, and a sliding portion disposed outside the sandwiching portion and movable along the extending direction. The sliding portion includes a pressurizing portion configured to pressurize the sandwiching portion toward the wire with the wire sandwiched by the sandwiching portion.

Joint connector

A female terminal includes a terminal body and a slider displaced relative to the terminal body. The terminal body includes a connecting tab deformable in a pressing direction crossing an inserting direction in which an electric wire is inserted and contactable with the electric wire. The slider is slidable between separated and overlapping positions. The slider includes a narrow portion that protrudes inward and has a less inner dimension in the pressing direction, and a wide portion in front of the narrow portion with respect to the inserting direction and has a greater inner dimension in the pressing direction than the narrow portion. The connecting tab contacts the electric wire when the narrow portion overlaps the connecting tab at the overlapping position. The slider includes a sloped guide surface that is angled at in front of the wide portion to spread further than the wide portion toward the front.

Terminal

A joint connector includes the plurality of wires extending in an extending direction, a plurality of terminals to be respectively connected to front end parts of the plurality of wires in the extending direction, a lower housing for accommodating the plurality of terminals, a busbar to be disposed in the lower housing, and an upper cover to be assembled with the lower housing. The busbar includes a plurality of tabs. Each of the plurality of terminals includes a tube portion, into which each of the plurality of tabs is inserted, and a wire connecting portion to be connected to each of the plurality of wires. The plurality of wires drawn out rearward in the extending direction from the lower housing include bent portions folded forward in the extending direction. The upper cover includes wire pressing portions for holding the plurality of wires folded forward in the extending direction.

A joint connector for connecting a plurality of wires includes a lower housing, an upper cover assembled with the lower housing, a plurality of terminals respectively connected to front end parts in an extending direction of the plurality of wires, and a busbar connected to the plurality of terminals. The busbar disposed in the lower housing includes a plurality of tabs. Each of the plurality of terminals disposed in the lower housing includes a tube portion, each of the plurality of tabs being inserted into the tube portion, sandwiching portions extending along the extending direction and configured to sandwich one of the plurality of wires, and a sliding portion disposed outside the sandwiching portions, movable along the extending direction and including pressurizing portions configured to pressurize the sandwiching portions toward the wire with the one of the plurality of wires sandwiched by the sandwiching portions.

A joint connectorto be connected to wiresincludes a lower housingand an upper cover. The lower housingaccommodates terminalsto be respectively connected to front end parts in an extending direction of the wires. The upper coveris assembled to close an upper surface of the lower housing. The lower housingor the upper coverincludes a lower guide portionor an upper guide portionfor bending the wiresby contacting the wireswith the lower housingand the upper coverassembled.

A terminal coupled to an electric wire includes a terminal body and a shell. The shell includes a tubular portion and pressing portionsA andB that protrudes from an inner wall of the tubular portion. The tubular portion includes a bottom wall, a first sidewall that projects upward from a first side edge of the bottom wall, a second sidewall that projects upward from a second side edge of the bottom wall, a ceiling that extends from the first sidewall to the second sidewall and is opposite the bottom wall, and a restricting portion that extends from the second sidewall to the first sidewall and overlaps an outer surface of the ceiling.

Terminal and terminal wire assembly

Looseness of two housings are suppressed. A connector includes a lower housing and an upper housing. The lower housing is provided with a locking portion. The upper housing is provided with an elastic locking piece that is hooked on the locking portion. The elastic locking piece has a cantilever shape, and restricts relative movement of the lower housing and the upper housing in a separation direction, which is a direction opposite to a coupling direction. The lower housing is provided with a protruding piece portion that protrude outward in a left-right direction. The upper housing is provided with a protruding piece restriction portion that restricts movement of the protruding piece portion. The protruding piece restriction portion is provided with an inclined surface that is inclined in an assembly direction to reduce a movable range of the protruding piece portion in a separation direction.

A male terminal includes a terminal body having a tab extending forward, and a cover slidable between a protection position where the tab is accommodated inside a sheath portion and a retracted position where a front end part of the tab is exposed from the front end of the sheath portion.

Male terminal and connector pair

A female terminal () to be connected to an end of a wire () is provided with a wire connecting portion () including a base () and first and second pinching portions () extending along an extending direction from the base () and configured to pinch the wire (), and a sliding portion () movable along the extending direction and including first pressing portions (A,B) and second pressing portions (A,B) for pressing the first and second pinching portions () toward the wire () by coming into contact with the first and second pinching portions (). The first pressing portions (A,B) and the second pressing portions (A,B) project toward the first and second pinching portions () and are side by side at an interval in a direction intersecting the extending direction.

A male terminalis provided with a terminal bodyincluding a tabextending forward, and a coverslidable between a protection position for accommodating the tabinside a sheath portionand a retracted position for exposing a front end part of the tabfrom a front end of the sheath portion, and the coveris made of a magnetic material.

Male terminal, male connector, jig and method for assembling male connector

A female connector includes an upper retainer and a lower retainer to be mounted into a connector housing and movable along a retainer moving direction intersecting a terminal inserting direction between a partial locking position for allowing insertion of terminals into cavities and a full locking position for locking and retaining the terminals. The upper and lower retainers include upper cam pins and lower cam pins projecting in a pin projecting direction intersecting the retainer moving direction and different from the terminal inserting direction. The upper and lower cam pins are fit into upper cam grooves and lower cam grooves provided in a jig and move in the upper and lower cam grooves, whereby the upper and lower retainers move between the full locking position and the partial locking position.

Connector, jig and method for assembling terminal to connector

A female terminalis a female terminal including a terminal bodyincluding a deformable upper connection pieceA and a deformable lower connection pieceB, the upper and lower connection piecesA andB having contact surfacesA andB that come in contact with a coreof a wire, respectively, and extending in an extension direction, and a slideconfigured to move along the extension direction. The slidehas an upper contact portionA and a lower contact portionB that press the upper connection pieceA and the lower connection pieceB, respectively, to the corewhile the coreis disposed in contact with the contact surfacesA andB of the upper and lower connection piecesA andB along the extension direction.

Terminal and connector

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