Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Yazaki Corporation

The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.

Shigeo Shigeyama

Toshihiko Kosugi

Nobuyuki Ishigure

Yoshio Chiba

Tadashi Usuya

Tadashi Okubo

Yasuaki Nadaya

Shuji Hirai

Masahiro Ueda

Kikuo Ogawa

Hidetaka Ito

Akio Nishiyama

Kazutaka Kamiya

Yuji Kawamoto

Katsuaki Kawahata

Kenji Kotani

Hideki Matsumura

Kunihiko Ikegame

Koji Ozeki

Looseness of a rotary connector and lifting of the rotary connector which occurs depending on a harness wiring state are prevented, to reduce inconvenience such as generation of an abnormal sound due to the rotary connector contacting a steering wheel. In a fixing structure of a rotary connector, which includes a projecting pieceto fix the rotary connector to a combination switch and a locked portionto be locked by the projecting pieceand in which a laterally protruding locking clawis formed in a tip portion of the projecting piece, the locking clawof the projecting pieceis integrally provided with a flexible urging portionthat displaces and urges the locking clawin a locking direction. A contact surfaceis formed on the locking claw, the contact surfaceobliquely coming into contact with a locking side cornerof the locked portionfrom the opposing side.

Rotary connector and fixing structure of rotary connector

A switch device includes a switch body that supports a lever operating portion, and a cylindrical fitting portion through which the switch body is attached to an attached portion. The fitting portion includes a plurality of elastic deformation portions elastically deformable by a clamping force of a clamping band member and a pressed-bulging portion bulging from an outer surface of a tip portion of the elastic deformation portions. The pressed-bulging portion is configured to locate at a contact position with the attached portion.

Switch device

A switch device includes a cylindrical movable lever-portion that is operable in multiple directions, a unit case that supports the movable lever-portion, and a flexible printed circuit board routed from an inside of the movable lever-portion to an inside of the unit case. A routed portion of the flexible printed circuit board to be routed inside the unit case includes a stress absorber configured to absorb a stress applied to the flexible printed circuit board. The stress absorber includes a plurality of curved portions curved in opposite directions to each other.

An in-vehicle apparatus mounting unit having a projection projecting into a cabin interior includes: a panel provided to face the cabin interior; a support for supporting the projection while the projection is made to project from the panel; and a support case that is attached to the panel on an opposite side to the cabin and accommodates the support in a space formed thereby together with the panel. The support is fixed to the panel or the support case by fixing means, and the fixing means releases the fixation for the support when a load pushing the projection toward the panel exceeds a predetermined load.

In-vehicle apparatus mounting unit

A connection structure for power supply to a vehicle door including a door side connector,a body side connector,a plurality of female terminals,provided in parallel in either one of the connectors, and a plurality of male terminals,corresponding to the female terminals provided in parallel in the other of the connectors, the female terminals,and the male terminals,being connected to each other when the door is closed, the female terminals,being arranged close to one another and synchronously swingable around a support shaft,in a direction of axial displacement with respect to the male terminals,The connection structure further includes a spring member,for forcing a pair of contact portions,of each of the female terminals,into a closed state, the spring member,including a pair of leg portions,which are in abutment against spring receiving walls,of a housing,of either one of the connectors. With this structure, the connectors,and,can be downsized in both width and length, and the axial displacement of the terminals will be avoided.

Connection structure for power supply to vehicle door

A disconnected situation of a clutch is detected by a clutch sensor and an actuator performing selection of gear ratio in a secondary transmission is controlled by a control circuit in response to detected signals of the clutch sensor, whereby the selection of the gear ratio is conducted only when the clutch is put in its disconnected situation.

Control device for controlling selection of gear ratio in secondary

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