Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Autonetworks Technologies, Limited

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Other

Denso Corporation

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Sumitomo Wiring, Ltd.

Masaaki Tabata

Yasuo Omori

Hajime Matsui

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Tetsuya Miyamura

Teruo Hara

Shunya Takeuchi

Hajime Kawase

Hiroki Hirai

Hiroki Kobayashi

Takeshi Amakawa

Kenji Okamura

Hideki Matsunaga

Takeshi Misaiji

Tetsuji Tanaka

Hiroki Shimoda

Junichi Ono

Takuji Otsuka

Masanori Moriyasu

Nungna Wi

Ryutaro Yamazaki

Toshifumi Ichio

Hiroyoshi Maesoba

Takeshi Tsuji

Hideki Ohashi

Masashi Yamamoto

Motoya Hara

Keisuke Teramoto

Masaki Kanatani

Eiji Kojima

Tomoyuki Sakata

Atsushi Ogawa

Takahito Nakashima

Takamaru Amano

Kazuaki Takeda

Kazuhiro Aoki

Yanqing Liu

Kimiyasu Okumura

Akihiro Nishio

Hisashi Kojima

Jin Hozumi

Tsutomu Tanaka

Yukio Mori

Hiroshi Nakano

Tetsuya Shinozaki

Toshio Onuma

Motonori Tominaga

Satoshi Morikawa

Takuya Inoue

Shoichi Shono

Tetsuya Aihara

Takeyasu Taguchi

Shingo Urababa

Hideki Kusunoki

Tomohiko Kobayashi

Toshiharu Naito

Takehiro Nakata

Motohiko Honma

Kohei Takagi

Yuujirou Imai

Atushi Sato

Yuichi Mizuta

Pipatthana Phatiwuttipat

Takenari Yamaguchi

Housei Mizuno

Shuuichi Buma

Katsumi Suzuki

Shigekazu Wakata

Nori Inoue

Hiroyuki Hayashi

Hidetoshi Ishida

Yoshihiro Mizutani

Eiji Saijo

Masahide Hio

Masanori Wakui

Hajime Okada

Takatoshi Katsuma

Keigo Atsumi

Yasuyuki Yamamoto

Hideki Nakayama

Kenta Ito

Hisashi Konoya

Kazumoto Konda

Toshiaki Hamada

Mitsugu Furutani

Kenji Makino

Kazuhiro Kamiya

Junji Muta

Kazuhiro Washio

Kenji Harada

Hideyuki Kobayashi

Takashi Tsuchiya

Akiya Taneda

Masaaki Kobayashi

Yoshiyuki Hashimoto

Keiichi Itou

Takuma Hibino

Kazuyuki Mizuno

Yuichi Inoue

Kohtaroh Okimura

A joint connectorfor electrically connecting a plurality of wiresincludes a housingand a joint terminalto be disposed in the housing. The joint terminalincludes a plurality of branch portionsarranged along an arrangement direction, a plurality of wire connecting portionsrespectively continuous with the plurality of branch portionsand to be connected to the plurality of wires, and a coupling portionfor electrically connecting the plurality of branch portionsby coupling the plurality of branch portions. The coupling portionis in the form of a plate extending in the arrangement direction and is bent. The coupling portionis engaged with the housing

Joint connector including branch portions and coupling portion

A terminal that is to be coupled to a mate terminal. The terminal includes a tubular portion and a spring tab. The mate terminal is to be inserted in the tubular portion and the spring tab is within the tubular portion, and includes a spring-side wall, connection wall, a first side wall that is continuous from the connection wall and the spring-side wall, a second side wall that is continuous from the spring-side wall, and an opening limiter portion. The spring tab presses the mate terminal, which is inserted in the tubular portion, from the spring-side wall toward the connection wall. The tubular portion includes a connection portion that connects the spring tab and connection wall. The tubular portion includes the opening limiter portion that contacts the connection portion from an opposite direction from a pressing direction, in which the spring tab presses the mate terminal, toward the connection wall.

Terminal and electric cable including terminal

A terminal coupled to an end of an electric wire on a front side with respect to an extending direction in which the electric wire extends. The terminal includes a terminal body including a holding section holding the electric wire and a slider slidable relative to the terminal body in the extending direction. The slider includes a pressing portion that presses the holding section toward the electric wire. The terminal body is formed from a folded metal sheet. The holding section includes a holding protrusion that protrudes toward the electric wire and contacts the electric wire. The holding protrusion is formed from a folded metal sheet.

Terminal and terminal wire assembly

A connector includes a terminal connected to a front end portion of an electric wire and a housing in which the terminal is arranged. The housing includes a base portion and cover members. The electric wire extending rearward from a portion of the housing that has the terminal therein is disposed on the base portion. The cover members that are movable between a position in which the cover members cover the base portion and a position in which the cover members are away from the base portion. The cover members include a wire pressing portion that presses the electric wire disposed on the base portion toward the base portion when the cover members are in the position in which the cover members cover the base portion.

Connector

A terminalto be connected to a front end part of a wirein an extending direction is provided with a terminal bodyincluding a wire connecting portionto be connected to the wire, and a shell to be externally fit to the wire connecting portion. The wire connecting portionincludes a sandwiching portionA,B extending in the extending direction of the wireand configured to sandwich the wire. The shell includes a resilient pressurizing portion for resiliently pressurizing the sandwiching portionA,B toward the wire

Terminal and wire with terminal

A joint connector for connecting a plurality of wires includes a plurality of terminals to be respectively connected to front end parts in an extending direction of the plurality of wires, a busbar to be connected to the plurality of terminals, and a housing for accommodating the plurality of terminals and the busbar inside. The busbar includes a plurality of tabs and a coupling portion coupling the plurality of tabs. Each of the plurality of terminals includes a tube portion, each of the plurality of tabs being insertable into the tube portion, a sandwiching portion extending along the extending direction and configured to sandwich the wire, and a sliding portion disposed outside the sandwiching portion and movable along the extending direction. The sliding portion includes a pressurizing portion configured to pressurize the sandwiching portion toward the wire with the wire sandwiched by the sandwiching portion.

Joint connector

A female terminal includes a terminal body and a slider displaced relative to the terminal body. The terminal body includes a connecting tab deformable in a pressing direction crossing an inserting direction in which an electric wire is inserted and contactable with the electric wire. The slider is slidable between separated and overlapping positions. The slider includes a narrow portion that protrudes inward and has a less inner dimension in the pressing direction, and a wide portion in front of the narrow portion with respect to the inserting direction and has a greater inner dimension in the pressing direction than the narrow portion. The connecting tab contacts the electric wire when the narrow portion overlaps the connecting tab at the overlapping position. The slider includes a sloped guide surface that is angled at in front of the wide portion to spread further than the wide portion toward the front.

Terminal

A vehicle stabilizer system, including: a stabilizer device and a switching mechanism to switch a roll suppressing function by a stabilizer bar between an effective state in which the roll suppressing function is rendered effective and an ineffective state in which the roll suppressing function is rendered ineffective; and a controller configured to determine whether a lateral acceleration of a vehicle body is greater than a threshold lateral acceleration and control the switching mechanism to render the roll suppressing function effective when the lateral acceleration is greater than the threshold lateral acceleration and ineffective when the lateral acceleration is not greater than the threshold lateral acceleration, wherein the controller employs, as a determination lateral acceleration for determining whether the lateral acceleration is greater than the threshold lateral acceleration, a smaller one of an actual lateral acceleration and an estimated lateral acceleration estimated based on a turning degree of the vehicle.

Stabilizer system

A joint connector includes the plurality of wires extending in an extending direction, a plurality of terminals to be respectively connected to front end parts of the plurality of wires in the extending direction, a lower housing for accommodating the plurality of terminals, a busbar to be disposed in the lower housing, and an upper cover to be assembled with the lower housing. The busbar includes a plurality of tabs. Each of the plurality of terminals includes a tube portion, into which each of the plurality of tabs is inserted, and a wire connecting portion to be connected to each of the plurality of wires. The plurality of wires drawn out rearward in the extending direction from the lower housing include bent portions folded forward in the extending direction. The upper cover includes wire pressing portions for holding the plurality of wires folded forward in the extending direction.

A joint connector for connecting a plurality of wires includes a lower housing, an upper cover assembled with the lower housing, a plurality of terminals respectively connected to front end parts in an extending direction of the plurality of wires, and a busbar connected to the plurality of terminals. The busbar disposed in the lower housing includes a plurality of tabs. Each of the plurality of terminals disposed in the lower housing includes a tube portion, each of the plurality of tabs being inserted into the tube portion, sandwiching portions extending along the extending direction and configured to sandwich one of the plurality of wires, and a sliding portion disposed outside the sandwiching portions, movable along the extending direction and including pressurizing portions configured to pressurize the sandwiching portions toward the wire with the one of the plurality of wires sandwiched by the sandwiching portions.

A terminal to be coupled to a front end portion of an electric wire. The terminal includes a terminal body and a slider. The terminal body includes a holding section holding a core wire of the electric wire. The slider is movable in a front-rear direction between a first position and a second position that is on a front side with respect to the first position while the slider being fitted on a section of the terminal body including the holding section. The slider includes a pressing portion that presses the holding section toward the electric wire when the slider is at the second position. The slider includes a pressure receiving portion that is pushed from a rear side to move the slider from the first position to the second position. The slider includes a support portion that receives a force applied to the pressure receiving portion that is pushed.

A terminal-equipped wire is provided with a wire including a conductor, a terminal to be connected to the conductor, and a shell to be mounted on the terminal. The terminal includes a grip portion for sandwiching the conductor. The shell includes a pressing portion for pressing at least a part of the grip portion toward the conductor. The grip portion has a Sn—Ni alloy layer. The Sn—Ni alloy layer includes locally projecting protrusions. The protrusions bite into the conductor.

Terminal-equipped wire

A terminal includes a terminal body and a slider. The terminal body is formed by processing a metal sheet. The terminal body is coupled to a front end of an electric wire with respect to an extending direction in which the electric wire extends. The terminal body holds the electric wire. The slider is slidable in the extending direction relative to the terminal body. The terminal body includes connecting tabs that includes contact surfaces contactable with the electric wire. Each of the connecting tabs has a cantilever shape. The slider includes pressing portions that press the connecting tabs so that the connecting tabs deform and the contact surfaces contact the electric wire when the slider is slid. The connecting tabs include burrs that are produced during processing of the metal sheet. The burrs protrude from the contact surfaces toward the electric wire.

A terminal-equipped electric wire includes an electric wire that includes a conductor, a terminal connected to the conductor, and a shell attached to the terminal. The terminal includes a grip portion that pinches the conductor. The shell includes a pressing portion that presses at least a portion of the grip portion toward the conductor. The grip portion and the conductor are joined with an alloy layer. The alloy layer contains a Cu&#x2014;Sn alloy.

Terminal-equipped electric wire

A terminal-equipped electric wire includes an electric wire that includes a conductor, a terminal connected to the conductor, and a shell attached to the terminal. The conductor has a nominal cross-sectional area of 0.13 mmor less. The terminal includes a grip portion that pinches the conductor. The shell includes a pressing portion that presses at least a portion of the grip portion toward the conductor. At least one of the conductor and the grip portion includes a tin layer, and an oxide coating formed on the surface of the tin layer. An adhering portion formed of a portion of tin contained in the tin layer that passes through the oxide coating and pours out onto a surface of the oxide coating. The adhering portion has an area of 0.100 mmor more.

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