Yazaki Corporation

Shinji Kodama

Kei Sato

Teruhisa Norizuki

Hideto Kumakura

Kiyohito Fukuda

Sakai Yagi

Satoshi Yamada

Toshiaki Okabe

Toshifumi Matsuura

Takayoshi Endo

Hiroshi Watanabe

Nobuyuki Akeda

Takashi Muro

Harunori Tashiro

Hiroshi Yamashita

Noboru Yamaguchi

Yuji Hatagishi

Isao Kameyama

Akihiro Tsuruta

Tomohiko Shimizu

Keiichi Ito

Tetsuo Kato

Keiichi Ozaki

Yoshitaka Ito

Takahiro Ohmoto

Ryosuke Ohfuku

Masaru Shinmura

Hiromasa Kubota

Toshiaki Ozawa

Kazuyuki Iwashita

Nobutoshi Hagiwara

Takashi Endo

Hiroyuki Yokota

Sumito Atsumi

Shinobu Kayama

Tetsuaki Suzuki

Hirotaka Noda

Yuki Goto

Yu Saito

Yuichi Ito

Kenya Suzuki

Naomi Omura

Keita Mochizuki

Ryosuke Uno

Yasuhiro Onodera

Tsutomu Igarashi

A connector includes a housing; and a fitting assurance member slidably attached to an outer side of the housing. The housing has a locking portion to be locked to the locked portion during a movement of the housing in a fitting direction to the counterpart housing. The fitting assurance member slides and moves relatively to the housing in the fitting direction from a temporary locking position to a formal locking position. The housing has an unlocking operation portion to apply unlocking force to the locking portion. The fitting assurance member has a pair of side walls on the outer side of the housing and a coupling portion connecting end portions of the pair of side walls. The coupling portion is located between the unlocking operation portion and the housing and separated from the unlocking operation portion.

Connector having a locking portion, an unlocking portion and a fitting assurance member

A method of waterproofing a coated electric wire attached connector terminal which is formed of metal material and which includes a barrel part which is crimped to a conductor which is exposed from a sheath, a terminal part, a connecting plate which is formed between the barrel part and the terminal part, and connects the barrel part and the terminal part. The method includes an adhesive material applying step in which adhesive material is applied to the connecting plate, and a molded part molding step in which the coated electric wire attached connector terminal is placed in a metal mold to form an injection space around the connecting plate, the barrel part and the sheath and resin is injected into the injection space to cover the connecting plate, the barrel part and the sheath with a resin molded part.

Method of waterproofing coated electric wire attached connector terminal

A coated electric wire attached connector terminal includes a barrel part which is crimped to a core line which is exposed from a sheath at one end of an electric wire, a terminal part to be electrically connected to a mating terminal, a connecting plate which is formed between the barrel part and the terminal part, and connects the barrel part and the terminal part, adhesive material which is applied to the connecting plate, and a resin molded part which is formed to cover the connecting plate, the barrel part and the sheath.

Coated electric wire attached connector terminal

A terminal, comprises an electric wire connecting part having a core wire barrel part that crimps a core wire exposed in one end of an electric wire, the core wire being made of a first metal; wherein the electric wire connecting part is made of a second metal whose ionization tendency is lower than that of the first metal, wherein the electric wire connecting part is plated with a third metal whose ionization tendency is between the first metal and the second metal so that a plating layer made of the third metal is formed on the electric wire connecting part, and wherein the core wire barrel part is crimped so as to break down the plating layer formed on a connecting surface of the core wire barrel part on which the core wire is mounted.

Connector crimping terminal

A lever-fit-type connector includes: a first connector; a lever provided on the first connector; and a second connector configured to be fitted with the first connector by an operation of the lever, wherein the lever includes a U-shaped elastic member including: a proximal end portion fixed to the lever; a distal end portion projecting in a vertical direction; a projecting portion projecting in a horizontal direction in the vicinity of the distal end portion; a U-shaped portion disposed between the proximal end portion and the distal end portion; and an engaging portion disposed between the distal end portion and the U-shaped portion, the U-shaped elastic member has a clearance between the proximal end portion and the distal end portion in the horizontal direction, and one of the first and second connectors includes an engaging portion operable to be engaged with the engaging portion of the U-shaped elastic member.

Lever-fit-type connector

A connector includes a housing formed with a plurality of terminal insertion holes into which a plurality of terminal metal fittings is inserted, respectively, and a spacer arranged inside the housing and coating the plurality of terminal metal fittings. The spacer includes main bodies fixed inside the housing, and a plurality of slit doors provided in the main bodies and divided into a plurality of small pieces by a plurality of slits. Each of the slit doors elastically deforms by abutting a terminal metal fitting inserted into a terminal insertion hole when the terminal metal fitting passes therethrough, and is brought into contact with the terminal metal fitting when the terminal metal fitting is attached to the housing.

Connector and coating member used for the same

A conductor (Wa) of the electric wire (W) whose insulated sheath (Wb) is removed from an extremity of the conductor to a location where the conductor projects backwards from a rear end of the terminal accommodating chamber () of the connector housingis crimped and connected by means of a pair of crimping pieces (), and an area that ranges from the extremity of the conductor (Wa) to the location that includes an end of the insulated sheath (Wb) is covered with a resin ().

Electric wire connection structure of connector terminal

A connection terminal includes a terminal connection portion to be connected with a partner terminal, a wire connection portion connected with a wire, a neck portion connecting the terminal connection portion and the wire connection portion, and a resin covering portion covering a connection portion of the wire connection portion and the wire. The neck portion has a bottom wall and a pair of side walls installed upright from both sides of the bottom wall and having parallel wall portions equally spaced from each other.

Connection terminal and method for manufacturing connection terminal

It is an objective to enhance sealing performance of a resin mold without subjecting a connector housing to special work. In an electric wire connection structure of a connector terminal in which an end of an electric wire (W) is connected to a rear portion of a connector terminal () and in which the electric wire connection is sealed of a resin mold (), a step (d) that makes an underside () of a rearmost end of the connector terminal () higher than an underside of an area ahead of the rearmost end is provided between the underside () of the rearmost end and the underside () ahead of the rearmost end, thereby assuring space () that enables filling of a resin which makes up a resin mold ().

Electric wire connection structure of connector terminal and method for fabricating the same

A first member including an electric connection portion and a second member including an electric wire connecting portion are joined together. The first member and the second member are made of dissimilar metal materials. Joined portions of the first member and the second member are covered with a resin mold portion.

Crimping terminal

A clamp includes a base portion, a clamping portion and an urging member. The base portion is connected to a housing accommodating a device. The clamping portion is provided on a first face of the base portion, and clamps a mating member. The urging portion is provided on a second face of the base portion. The urging portion has elasticity, and urges the device in a case where the base portion is connected to the housing.

Clamp and electronic device accommodating unit

Provided is a crimping terminal, having a conductor crimping portion of a wire connection portion formed so as to have a substantially U-shaped cross-section with a bottom plate and a pair of conductor caulking pieces, and a sheath caulking portion formed so as to have a substantially U shaped cross-section with a bottom plate and a pair of sheath caulking pieces. The bottom plate of the conductor crimping portion and the bottom plate of the sheath caulking portion are continuously formed as a common bottom plate, and the wire connection portion, which is provided therein with a pair of covering walls formed continuously between the conductor caulking piece and the sheath caulking piece, is formed on an entire inner surface thereof with serrations, in the direction of intersecting with a longitudinal direction of electric wire.

Crimping terminal and connection structure of crimping terminal to electric wire

A capacitor mounting construction includes housing, a bracket and an urging member. The housing has a capacitor accommodating space configured to accommodate a capacitor and a wire accommodating space configured to accommodate a wire extended from the capacitor. The bracket is engaged with the housing, is configured to fix and electrically connect the wire to a conductive member in the wire accommodating space, and covers the capacitor accommodating space to define a capacitor accommodating chamber. The urging member is provided on an inner wall of the capacitor accommodating chamber, and is configured to urge the capacitor to contact another inner wall of the capacitor accommodating chamber.

Capacitor mounting construction

In a structure in which a crimping terminal () in which an electric wire connection part () is formed in substantially a U shape in cross-section view by having base plate parts () and pairs of electric wire crimping pieces () is used and a metallic tubular cap () is attached to a conductor (Wa) exposed by removing a portion of an insulating sheath (Wb) of the distal end of an electric wire W and the electric wire crimping pieces () are crimped while crushing the conductor (Wa) of the distal end of the electric wire W together with the cap () thereon, a front end () of the cap () is crushed and thereby the front end of the cap () is sealed with its crush part ().

Connection structure of crimping terminal to electric wire

The present invention prevents two connector housings of a connector from being in a half-fitted condition by increasing restoring force which separates the two housing. A connector includes: a first connector housing including a lock projection; a second connector housing to be fitted to the first connector housing and integrally including a lock arm which is elastically deformed by the lock projection and is engaged with the lock projection; a lock ensuring member including a body which is attached to the second connector housing and movable between an allowing position and a preventing position, and an interference arm which is integrally provided on the body and includes a pressing projection. The pressing projection presses the lock arm while the lock projection deforms the lock arm at the allowing position, and the interference arm abuts the lock arm so as to prohibit the lock arm from deforming in the preventing position.

Connector

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Shizuoka, Japan

Shinji Kodama