Yazaki Corporation

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Motohisa Kashiyama

Hiroshi Aoki

Satoshi Uematsu

Chiaki Chida

Hitoshi Hirasawa

Akio Mori

Seiji Ito

Shoichi Mochizuki

Shinobu Nakamura

Yasutaka Suzuki

Kouji Shigehisa

Susumu Nakatsugawa

Susumu c/o Yazaki Parts Co Ltd Nakatsugawa

A lever member,, having an operating portion,, is pivotally mounted on a lever support portion mounted on an upper casing. Retaining projections,are elastically-deformably formed respectively on those portions of opposite side surfaces of the operating portion which can be opposed to a pair of support side plates,, respectively. The retaining projections,has elasticity, and therefore a force, required for bringing the retaining projections into and out of retaining engagement with retaining projections formed on the lever support portion, can be reduced, and besides the sense of a click can be obtained. Therefore, the efficiency of the operation, the operability and the reliability can be enhanced.

Lever structure of electric connection box

A connector arrangement including a cam mechanism for interconnecting connector housings, in which the number of component parts is reduced and the strength is increased. The connector arrangement includes a first connector housing having a pair of support walls extending therefrom, each of the support walls having a protruding pin; a cam lever pivotally supported on each pin with the cam lever having a pair of cam grooves formed therein; a second connector including a following arm extending therefrom which includes pair of projections which are receivable in the cam grooves whereupon rotation of the cam lever causes the first and second connectors to be joined together; a temporary locking member extending from each of the support walls for retaining the cam lever in a temporary angular position at which the projections are insertable into the cam grooves; and a complete locking member extending from each of the support walls for retaining the cam lever in a completely locked angular position where the first and second connectors are completely engaged with each other. The temporary and complete locking members are integral to the support walls, respectively. The arrangement further includes rotation prevention members provided on the support walls for limiting rotation of the cam lever to a predetermined angle.

Cam mechanism for attaching and detaching interconnecting structures

A method for providing a receptacle includes the steps of: providing a stamped blank having a strip-like conductor which includes longitudinal edges (7), a resilient contact plate, a connective plate having a first portion and a second portion, and at least one projection: a first bending step for bending the extension such that flat surfaces of the projection are perpendicular to flat surfaces of the resilient contact plate; a second bending step, conducted after the first bending step, for bending the first portion of said conductive plate such that flat surfaces of the resilient contact plate are perpendicular to flat surfaces of the strip-like conductor; and a third bending step, conducted after the second bending step, for bending the first portion of the connective plate such that the flat surfaces of the at least one projection are perpendicular to the flat surfaces of the strip-like conductor.

Method of shaping plug receptacle

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Kazuhiro Watanabe