Yazaki Corporation

Masanobu Oishi

Motohisa Kashiyama

Katsuhiko Onoda

Nobuyuki Sakamoto

Akihiro Tsuruta

Naoki Okamoto

Naokazu Nagasaka

Tomokazu Yamane

Takanori Suzuki

Shoichi Watai

Yoshihito Masuko

A connector includes: a housing; and a cover. The housing includes a lock body that is lockable to a counterpart lock body so that fitting connection with the counterpart housing is not canceled, and a lock cancellation arm that deforms with application of lock cancellation force to a point-of-effort part and cancels a state in which the lock body is lockable to the counterpart lock body. The cover includes a second wall that covers the housing up to the position of the point-of-effort part in the fitting connection direction, an exposure part formed at the wall to expose the point-of-effort part, and a lock cancellation operation body that includes an operation part capable of receiving a press movement operation, blocks the exposure part to an extent that deformation along with the press movement operation is possible, and applies the lock cancellation force to the point-of-effort part through the deformation.

Connector

To provide an insert molding method for a connector which enables terminals to be inserted easily into insertion destination places for the terminals. An insert-molding method for insert molding a connectorequipped with a plurality of terminalsintegrated with a housingand aligned in two rows, includes setting the plurality of terminalsin a housing moldto uniform warping directions D of the terminalsso that the warping directions D are respectively directed toward outer sides of the rows of the terminals

Insert molding method for connector

A fixing structure of a connector includes a housing and a rear holder fixing the housing to a casing by screws. The rear holder has a base plate opposing the casing. First through holes are formed on the base plate so as to correspond to second openings for leading out conductive parts of the female terminals respectively. Terminal holding members are respectively provided at the first through holes for contacting the female terminals respectively. The screws are inserted respectively through second through holes which are arranged so as to deviate to one side with respect to a center of gravity of a region in which the first through holes are formed. Elasticity of one of the terminal holding members which is disposed at a first position facing at least one of the second through holes in a peripheral part of the region are smaller than elasticity of another one of the terminal holding members which is disposed at a position except for the first position.

Fixing structure of connector

A connector housing body has a terminal receiving chamber. A projecting terminal has a terminal base received in the terminal receiving chamber and a projecting portion projecting from the housing body. A front body covers the projecting portion of the terminal. The front body has the terminal insertion hole through which the projecting portion of the terminal is extended. L locking means are provided in the housing body and the front body for finally locking the front body to the housing body at a final locking position where the projecting portion of the terminal is extended from the insertion hole. The locking means preliminarily locks the front body at the preliminary locking position where a leading end of the projecting portion of the terminal is positioned with a less distance from the front body than at the final locking position. At the preliminary locking position, the projecting portion of the terminal is not extended from the terminal insertion hole of the front body. Even when the projecting portion of the projecting terminal a little extends from the front body, the extended length is smaller than at the final locking position.

Electrical connector

In a waterproof connector, a sealing material is filled in an internal space of an outer housing which lies between an inner housing and a waterproof plug. The outer housing is so formed that a centerline of a connector opening and a centerline of a waterproof plug receiving portion are offset a predetermined amount from each other, and the density of wires in the sealing material-filling space within the outer housing is made generally uniform.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Masanobu Oishi