Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Wataru Yamanaka

Shohei Mitsui

Norihito Hashimoto

Keisuke Kanemura

Motoki Kubota

Ai Hirano

Yusuke Ito

Liping Kang

Masanobu Kasuga

Tomoaki Yasuda

Kazuya Kobayashi

Shinobu Wakahara

Ryo Yamada

Hidefumi Horiuchi

Provided are a shielded terminal and a shielded connector that can prevent a short circuit between a connection portion for an electric component and an outer conductor. A shielded terminal includes an outer conductor, a connection portion for an electric component, and an insulator, wherein the outer conductor has a crimping portion that is crimped onto an end portion of a shielded wire, a bottom surface portion in which an opening is formed forward of the crimping portion, and side surface portions provided on both the left and right sides of the bottom surface portion, the connection portion is disposed between the left and right side surface portions and formed by connecting a center conductor of the shielded wire and the electric component to each other, and the insulator has left and right side walls that are located between the connection portion and the respective side surface portions.

Shielded terminal and shielded connector

Provided is a terminal fitting and a connector with which the amount of insertion of the terminal fitting into a housing can be easily controlled. A terminal fitting includes: a tubular connection portion (); a locking protrusion () that is provided so as to protrude from an outer circumferential surface side of the tubular connection portion (), and is configured to be locked to a groove () provided in a housing (); and a contact-stopper protrusion () that is provided on the outer circumferential surface side of the tubular connection portion () so as to protrude from mating edges () that abut against each other in a circumferential direction thereof in the tubular connection portion (), and is configured to come into contact with the housing () and stop in place.

Terminal fitting and connector

The present invention prevents a cover from being incorrectly installed with respect to an external conductor. This shielded terminal is provided with: an external conductor () that has a connection space () which is between a pair of side walls (), and which is open to the outside via a first opening () and a second opening (); a shielded electric cable () that is connected to the external conductor (); an internal conductor () that is housed in the external conductor () and that is connected to a core wire () of the shielded electric cable () in the connection space (); and a cover () that is installed inside the connection space () from the first opening () and that surrounds the part at which the core wire () and the internal conductor () are connected, wherein an interference part () that interferes with the cover () is formed on the opening edge part of the second opening ().

Shielded terminal

Provided are a connector and a shield terminal with which an increase in the size of the connector can be avoided. A shield terminalis attached to a housingfrom one direction that intersects a front-and-rear direction. The shield terminalincludes outer conductorsandthat constitute an outer shell. The outer conductorsandinclude an engaging portionthat protrudes in the one direction from a surface thereof oriented in the one direction, and that can engage with the housing

Shield terminal and electrical connection structure including the same

A connection structure of a shielded terminaland a shielded electrical wireincludes a shielded electrical wireincluding a shield layer; and a shielded terminalincluding an outer conductorconnected to the shield layer, wherein the outer conductoris formed by assembling a first shellincluding an electrical wire connection portionthat comes into contact with an outer circumference of the shield layer, and a second shellincluding a compression bonding portionthat is crimped to an outer circumference of the electrical wire connection portion, and a catch portionthat catches on an outer circumferential surface of the shield layeris formed in the electrical wire connection portion

Connection structure of shielded terminal and shielded electrical wire

A connector includes small-diameter shielded terminalsthat are connected to small-diameter shielded electric wires, and a housingthat includes wide terminal housing partsand a narrow terminal housing part. The wide terminal housing partsinclude wide holding partsand a lid part. The narrow terminal housing partincludes a narrow holding partand the lid part. The lid partincludes a plate-like covering partthat covers openings in the wide holding partsand the narrow holding part, and elastic pressure-receiving partsthat protrude from the plate-like covering partinto the wide terminal housing partsand the narrow terminal housing partand are elastically deformable under pressing forces of the small-diameter shielded electric wiresor the coated electric wire

Connector capable of suppressing separation of lid from housing

A shield terminal includes a first outer conductor and a second outer conductor. The first outer conductor includes a barrel portion that is electrically connected to a shield portion of an electric wire, and an engaging portion capable of engaging with a housing, and the second outer conductor includes a main body portion and an extension portion extending rearward from the main body portion. A rear end portion of the extension portion is sandwiched between the barrel portion and the electric wire. A fastener portion is formed on a front side of the second outer conductor relative to the rear end of the extension portion, and a fastening portion capable of coming into contact with the fastener portion in a direction of rotation about the engaging portion is formed forward of the engaging portion of the first outer conductor.

Two part shield terminal with position stabilization and connector therewith

A wire with terminal includes a wire and a terminal. The wire includes a conductor and a coating. The wire includes a conductor exposed portion in which an outer peripheral surface of the conductor is exposed. The terminal includes an insulation barrel for holding the coating, and a wire barrel to be connected to the conductor exposed portion in front of the insulation barrel. The wire barrel includes a wire barrel base portion, a one-side wire barrel piece extending from an end part of the wire barrel base portion on one side in a width direction toward the other side to cover an outer periphery of the conductor exposed portion and an other-side wire barrel piece extending from an end part of the wire barrel base portion on the other side to be laid on an outer periphery of the one-side wire barrel piece on the other side.

Wire including conductor exposed portion connected with wire barrel of terminal

A terminal includes a wire barrel and an insulation barrel. The wire barrel includes a wire barrel base portion, a one-side wire barrel piece and an other-side wire barrel piece to be laid on an outer periphery of the one-side wire barrel piece. The insulation barrel includes an insulation barrel base portion connected to and behind the wire barrel base portion, a one-side insulation barrel piece for covering one side of an outer periphery of a coating and an other-side insulation barrel piece for covering the other side of the outer periphery of the coating. Tips of the respective one-side and other-side insulation barrel pieces are locked to the coating of a wire on a side closer to the other side than a center in a width direction of the insulation barrel.

Wire including terminal provided with insulating barrel pieces

A connectorincludes an inner conductor terminal, an outer conductor terminalfor covering an outer periphery of the inner conductor terminal, and a dielectricarranged between the inner conductor terminaland the outer conductor terminal. The inner conductor terminalincludes a tubular terminal bodyextending in a front-rear direction and projections (e.g. front projectionsand rear projections) provided on the terminal body and to be locked to the dielectric. A plurality of the projections are provided at an interval in the front-rear direction.

Connector

An end structure of a shielded cableincludes a core, an insulatorfor covering the core, a foilfor covering the insulator, a braided wirefor covering the foil, a sheathfor covering the braided wireand a sleevearranged between the braided wireand the foilexposed from an end part of the sheath. The end part of the sheathand the sleeveare separated from each other to form a clearance

End structure and sleeve of shielded cable

A sleeve () is a hollow cylindrical member provided in a shield terminal (), and pressable by a wire barrel () by being arranged between an insulating portion () and a shield portion () of a shielded cable (). A convex portion () shaped to bulge radially outward over an entire circumference is provided at an intermediate position of the sleeve () in an axial direction. The convex portion () is crushed and elongated by the wire barrel () of an outer conductor terminal (). The insulating portion () can be prevented from being excessively compressed.

Sleeve and shield terminal manufacturing method

A shield terminal () includes an inner conductor terminal () and an outer conductor terminal () surrounding the inner conductor terminal (). The outer conductor terminal () has a pull-out opening () through which an inner conductor connecting piece () of the inner conductor terminal () is pulled toward a circuit board (). The outer conductor terminal () includes outer conductor connecting pieces that face the pull-out opening () and that include first and second outer conductor connecting pieces () located on both sides across the inner conductor connecting piece () in a plan view and a third outer conductor connecting piece () that faces the inner conductor connecting piece () in a direction orthogonal to an arrangement direction of the first and second outer conductor connecting pieces () at a position between the first and second outer conductor connecting pieces () in the arrangement direction.

Shield terminal and shield connector

An outer conductor terminal () includes a body () surrounding an outer periphery of an inner conductor terminal () and having a rear opening and a lid () for closing the opening of the body (). Body-side locks () are provided on side surfaces of the body (). The lid () has side portions () for covering the side surfaces of the body (). The side portions () are provided with front abutting portions () contacting the body-side locks () from the front. The lid () has rear abutting portions () contacting the body-side locks () from behind to sandwich the body-side lock portions () between the front abutting portions () and the rear abutting portions () and to hold the lid (). The body-side locks () include contact portions () that contact the rear abutting portions () with resilient forces.

Outer conductor terminal and shield connector

A shield terminal () includes an inner conductor terminal (), an outer conductor terminal (), a dielectric () and a capacitor serving as an electronic element (). The outer conductor terminal () surrounds the inner conductor terminal () and is connected to a shield portion () of a shielded cable (). The dielectric () is arranged between the inner conductor terminal () and the outer conductor terminal (). The electronic element () includes a core connecting portion () to be connected to a core () of the shielded cable () and an inner conductor connecting portion () to be connected to the inner conductor terminal (). In the shield terminal (), an insulating short circuit preventing member () is arranged between the core connecting portion () and the outer conductor terminal ().

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