Yazaki Corporation

Tomokazu Iwami

Michitake Masuda

Ryuji Kawai

Hirotaka Fukushima

Takashi Tsukamoto

Yoshinobu Furuya

Tsutomu Sawada

Takatoshi Suzuki

Hiroka Nahara

An open-and-close structureA for a cap includes a housing, a caprotatably supported on the housing, and a biasing memberconfigured to apply a biasing force near a rotation shaftof the cap, wherein open position-maintaining means configured to maintain the capat an open position by a biasing force of the biasing memberand reaction force application means configured to apply a reaction force in a closing direction by the biasing memberto the capin response to a further movement of the capin an open direction from the open position are provided on at least one of a support portionthat is a cap-side sliding contact portion or a sliding contact memberthat is a biasing member-side sliding contact portion.

Open-and-close structure for cap and charging connector

A connector includes: a connector housing including a connector fitting chamber to which a mating connector is fitted, in which a terminal is arranged in a projecting state in the connector fitting chamber; a rear case that is assembled to the connector housing through intermediation of a packing; a water drainage passage provided in the connector housing, which allows water that has entered a front side of the connector housing to flow into an inside of the rear case; a drainage port provided in the rear case; a terminal accommodating portion that holds the terminal in the projecting state in the connector fitting chamber and has an opening portion on a back side of the rear case; and an O-ring interposed between an inner peripheral surface of the terminal accommodating portion on a side of the rear case and an outer peripheral surface of the terminal.

Vehicle connector

A connector includes a terminal, a connector housing, a temperature sensor, and a holder. The connector housing houses the terminal. The temperature sensor defines the terminal or an electric wire connected to the terminal as a temperature detection target, and detects temperature of the temperature detection target. The holder houses and holds the terminal, the electric wire, and the temperature sensor. The holder includes at least one first pressing portion and a second pressing portion. The first pressing portion projects toward the housed temperature sensor, and presses and pushes the temperature sensor to the temperature detection target. The second pressing portion presses and pushes the housed temperature detection target to the temperature sensor.

Connector

A connector includes first terminals configured to be connected to first electric cables, a housing having terminal housing cylinder portions configured to contain the first terminals in parallel, terminal housing portions provided between the terminal housing cylinder portions, second terminals configured to be connected to second electric cables and to be contained in the terminal housing portions, and fasteners configured to fasten and fix terminal metal fittings connected to end portions of the first electric cables to the first terminals protruding from rear ends of the pair of terminal housing cylinder portions. By the fasteners, the terminal metal fittings are fixed to side faces of the first terminals from directions intersecting with axis directions of the first terminals, the side faces being opposite to faces of the first terminals which face each other.

Connector configured to be fitted into a counterpart connector

A connector includes a housing configured to be supported by an attachment object and a terminal configured to be supported by the housing, and the terminal is configured to be electrically connected to a counterpart terminal of a counterpart connector when the counterpart connector is fitted to the connector. The housing includes a body portion having an inner cylinder portion to which the terminal is assembled and to which a counterpart housing of the counterpart connector can be fitted and an attachment portion having an outer cylinder portion which is configured to be fixed to the attachment object and to which the inner cylinder portion is fitted. The body portion is assembled to the attachment portion in a state that the inner cylinder portion fitted to the outer cylinder portion penetrates the outer cylinder portion.

Charging inlet connector assembled to a vehicle body of a vehicle mounted with a battery

A connector includes a terminal configured to be connected to an electric cable, a housing configured to contain the terminal, a terminal holder configured to be attached to the housing, and has a housing space portion configured to contain a connection part between the terminal and an end portion of the electric cable, a sensor housing portion provided in the terminal holder adjacently to the housing space portion, and a temperature sensor configured to be contain and held in the sensor housing portion. The temperature sensor has an end face which is located on a front side in a mounting direction of the terminal holder into the housing. The end face of the temperature sensor is exposed from the sensor housing portion and is brought into directly abutment against the terminal.

A terminal having a dissimilar material different from a contact base material, the dissimilar material arranged on a surface of a sliding contact portion on which a mating terminal slides includes a groove provided in the sliding contact portion in a direction different from a sliding direction of the mating terminal.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Tomokazu Iwami