Yazaki Corporation

Kaoru Suzuki

Atsuyoshi Yamaguchi

Takehiko Uehara

Katsuaki Maruyama

Nobuhiro Takada

Koji Toda

An electric power-feeding structure for feeding electric power to a moving body which is driven to be raised or lowered, includes: an arm having a distal end connected to the moving body movably in a direction perpendicular to a raising or lowering direction of the moving body and a proximal end adapted to be rotatably driven so as to swing, to thereby drive the raising or lowering of the moving body. An electrical wire is routed alongside the arm, and one end of the electrical wire extending from the distal end of the arm is connected to the moving body to feed electric power to the moving body. The electrical wire is routed alongside a side surface of the arm.

Electric power-feeding structure with a wire routing along an arm

An electric power-feeding structure for feeding electric power to a moving body which is driven to be raised or lowered, includes: an arm having a distal end connected to the moving body movably in a direction perpendicular to a raising or lowering direction of the moving body, and a proximal end adapted to be rotatably driven so as to swing, to thereby drive the raising or lowering of the moving body. An electrical wire is routed alongside the arm, and one end of the electrical wire extending from the distal end of the arm is connected to the moving body to feed electric power to the moving body. In a vicinity of a rotating shaft of the arm, the electrical wire is routed around the rotating shaft to be bent and deformed.

Electric power-feeding structure with arm and electric wire for feeding electric power to moving body

An electric connection box which is electrically connected to electrical equipments of an automobile via wire harnesses is installed at a center cluster provided at a central portion of an instrument panel of the automobile. A plurality of switches for controlling the electrical equipments are provided at a front portion of a connection box body of the electric connection box. Operating portions of the switches are exposed to form part of a design surface (front surface) of the center cluster.

Electric connection box

An electric power-feeding structure for feeding electric power to a moving body which is driven to be raised or lowered, includes: an arm having a distal end connected to the moving body movably in a horizontal direction and a proximal end rotatably driven to swing, to thereby drive the raising or lowering of the moving body. An electrical wire is routed alongside the arm, and one end of the electrical wire extending from the distal end is connected to the moving body. In a vicinity of a rotating shaft of the arm, the electrical wire is fixed to the arm at a first fixing point and to a base for supporting the arm at a second fixing point. The first fixing point is provided on a straight line defined by the rotating shaft and the second fixing point when the arm is at an intermediate position of its swinging range.

Electric power-feeding structure

To provide a flat cable clamp which can easily carry out a mutual engagement operation of members which clamp down a flat cable over preventing flip-flop (i.e., unstable fixing) of the flat cable which is clamped down, on the occasion that a clamp main bodyand first, second coversof a flat cable clampare engaged with each other, cable holding-down protrusionspress a bridge portionof a flat cableso as for the bridge portionto be bent toward an inner surface of the clamp main body, in its thickness direction. By that means, the flat cableis held down to the inner surface of the clamp main body

Flat cable clamp

To provide a flat cable clamp which can not only prevent breakage of a hinge but also limit a bending direction of the hinge, First and second protective protrusionsare disposed in the vicinity of both side edge surfaceof first and second thin-walled hingesso as to be opposed to the both side edge surfacesof the first and second thin-walled hinges, respectively. The first and second hinge protective protrusionslimit bending directions of the first and second thin-walled hinges, on the occasion that first and second coversengage with a clamp main bodyso as to clamp down a flat cablebetween the first and second coversand the clamp main body

A connector includes first wire-holding portions ( ) for holding power-supplying wires ( ) in a juxtaposed manner, a second wire-holding portion ( ) for alternately holding earth wires ( ) and signal-purpose or power-receiving wires ( ) for auxiliary equipments in a juxtaposed manner in a direction substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the wires ( ) held by the first wire holding portions ( ), a plurality of press-contacting joint terminals ( ), each including a second press-contacting terminal ( ) for connection to the corresponding signal-purpose or power-receiving wire ( ) and a first press-contacting terminal ( ) which is connected to the second press-contacting terminal ( ), and can be connected to the corresponding wire ( ) held by the first wire-holding portions ( ), and an earth terminal ( ) which can be connected to the earth wires ( ) and can be connected to an earth side.

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Kosai, Japan

Kaoru Suzuki