Yazaki Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroyasu Matsumura

Yoshinobu Furuya

Ryuta Takishita

Hirotaka Hasegawa

Masaaki Iwabe

Go Yamada

Makoto Motono

Kenji Eto

An attaching structure for attaching a service-plug for shutting off and conducting an electric circuit of a vehicle to a power source device, comprises a floor panel constituting a bottom wall of a compartment of the vehicle and formed with an opening which faces the compartment; a metal plate disposed outside the vehicle than the floor panel and forming a cavity between the metal plate and the floor metal plate and covering the power source device, and including an attachment portion to which the service-plug is attached and raised toward the opening in the cavity; and a sealing member for keeping the cavity liquid-tight disposed between the floor panel and the metal sheet so as to surround the attachment portion; wherein the service-plug is detachably attached to the attachment portion so as to project toward the compartment through the opening.

Attaching structure capable of preventing a service-plug from exposure to water

A connectorhas a housingincluding a side wallextending from a base plate, a pair of projectionsprojecting from the side wall, and a leverincluding a pair of plate membersA having a guide grooveand a plate connecting memberB connecting the pair of plate members. The lever is positioned from a release position to a slide start position, at which the surface of the base plate is in parallel to and slid along the lengthwise direction of the guide groove, and tube membersand locking membersare engaged. A first surfaceat a side apart from the guide groove is perpendicular to a slide direction at the slide position and a second surfaceat a side near to the guide groove is perpendicular to a connecting direction Z at the release position. When the leverreaches a lock position, detect connectors in tube membersbecome engaged to close the power circuit.

Lever lock connector and connector unit having that

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Kakegawa, Japan

Hiroyasu Matsumura