Koito Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

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Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Kazuto Nitta

Hironori Tsukamoto

Kihachiro Uchida

Masatoshi Yoneyama

Hisashi Sawada

A vehicle lamp is provided with a feeder device for simplifying the labor of disposing feeder cords while improving accuracy. The vehicle lamp has a movable reflector tiltably supported by a lamp body via an aiming mechanism. A back cover is detachably fitted in an opening formed in the rear of the lamp body. The back cover includes a terminal for conducting the terminal of a feeder cord connected to a light source provided in the lamp body, and the terminal of a power supply cord connected to a power supply for supplying power to the light source.

Vehicle lamp with a back cover having a terminal

A retaining projection,for engagement in a retaining groove,formed in a base portion,of a bulb,is formed on one of a pair of holder pieces,of a metal terminal,and a connecting projection,is formed on the other holder piece,and this connecting projection,is to be opposed to that portion of a lead wire,lying between its proximal end portion and its intermediate portion, and is projected toward the lead wire,so as to be held against the lead wire,With this construction, even if the base portion,is held between the holder pieces,and,with the distal end portion of the lead wire,displaced to be tilted, the connecting projection,never fails to be held against the proximal end portion of the lead wire,thereby positively achieving an electrical connection therebetween.

Metal terminal for wedge-base bulb

An electrical connector for an automotive headlamp includes a connector housing formed from an insulating material and electrical terminals which are electrically conductive and inserted into the respective sleeves of the connector housing. Respective planar connecting portions of the electrical terminals are disposed in the same plane and are disposed to as to about a plane in which corresponding external terminals provided in the lamp are disposed. Thus, the length of the connector housing in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the planar connecting portions can be reduced, thereby reducing the width of the electrical connector. As a result, the overall height of the headlamp can be reduced.

Electrical connector for automotive lamp

An electric connector comprises: electric terminals; and a connector housing formed from an insulating member. The connector housing comprises, a body portion having a pipe-like shape with base-end opening portions to which the electric terminals are inserted, a cover portion for covering the base-end opening portions of the body portion, and hinge portions connecting the body portion with the cover portion and being deformable to bend to make the cover portion cover the body portion.

Electric connector

A vehicular lamp having a structure of electrical connection between a lamp bulb serving as a light source installed in a lamp body and an external power source for supplying electric power to the lamp bulb which includes a back cover detachably attached to a bulb insertion hole formed in a back surface of the lamp body and a relay connector connecting with both the lamp bulb and an external power source, and the relay connector is constituted by an internal electrical connection section disposed at an inside of the back cover for electrically connecting with the lamp bulb and an external electrical connection section disposed at an outside of the back cover for connecting with a harness for the external power source. The internal electrical connection section and the external electrical connection section are formed integrally with each other by a conductive terminal which penetrates the back cover.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Kazuto Nitta