Yazaki Corporation

Hitoshi Uesugi

Hidehiko Kuboshima

Shigemi Hashizawa

Tatsuya Maeda

Masayuki Karamatsu

Yoshimi Masuda

Kazuyoshi Tomikawa

Tsutomu Maki

A power breaking device includes a stationary box , a fuse carrying box and a guide and restricting mechanism . The stationary box consists of a fixed housing , a load-side bus bar and a power-side bus bar . The fuse carrying box consists of a carrying box body detachable to the stationary box and a fuse fixing part for carrying a fuse . The mechanism is constituted by slits formed in a partition wall . The partition wall is formed integrally with the fixed housing to define an accommodating part in which the fuse is accommodated and retained. When the fuse carrying box is fitted to the stationary box , the slits serve to introduce both terminals of the fuse to a power-connecting part and a load-connecting part of the stationary box and also restrict the displacement of the terminals

Power breaking device

Connector housings having plural kinds of terminals (plated with different materials, e.g.) are mounted at predetermined locations, positioned and secured by a drive means. A sensor probe which receives a light, of a color detection device, is transferred successively to the locations opposite to the terminals. A color sensor senses a level of a specific color component of the light received by the sensor probe. The sensed level is compared with a predetermined reference level and it can be determined based upon whether the sensed level is higher than the reference level, the kind of the terminals in the connector housings.

Identification of connector terminals

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Shizuoka-ken, Japan

Hitoshi Uesugi