Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Kiminobu Tabata

Shigeki Takahashi

Takeshi Kai

Yuya Tabata

Tsutomu Fukui

Masaru Shinmura

Seiichi Hara

Tadashi Inazu

Akito Ishigaki

Chih-Hsuen Tsai

Yen-Huai Wang

Koki Igarashi

Charge connector

A connector device comprises a connector and a mating connector. The connector comprises a housing formed with an axis portion and holding a power terminal and a detection terminal. The mating connector comprises a mating housing formed with a mating axis portion and holding a mating power terminal and a mating detection terminal. When the axis portion and the mating axis portion are combined, the connector is turnable from an opened position to a closed position via a predetermined position. When the connector is located at the opened position, the power terminal and the detection terminal are unconnected to the mating power terminal and the mating detection terminal, respectively. When the connector is turned to the predetermined position, the power terminal is connected to the mating power terminal. When the connector is turned to the closed position, the detection terminal is connected to the mating detection terminal.

Connector device

A connector includes two housings coupled with each other to hold a cable therebetween. One of the housings includes a cable receiving portion for receiving the cable, a restricting portion adjacent to the cable receiving portion, a first wall portion formed outside the restricting portion and defining a space between the first wall portion and the restricting portion, and a first engaging portion inwardly protruding from the first wall portion. Another of the housings includes a cable pressing portion for pressing the cable towards the cable receiving portion and the restricting portion, and a second wall portion formed adjacent to the cable pressing portion and inserted into the space. The second wall portion has a second engaging portion extending outward from the second wall portion. The first and the second engaging potions are engaged with each other to prevent the housings from separating from each other.

Connector in which two housings holding a cable are firmly engaged with each other

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Tokyo, Japan

Kiminobu Tabata