Yazaki Corporation

Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuhiro Nagasaka

Yasuo Hirayama

Masanori Tsuji

Takayuki Yamamoto

Masaru Fukuda

Shigekazu Wakata

Yoshihiro Murakami

Tadahiro Sueyoshi

Hidetaka Okabe

Nobuyuki Asakawa

Ichiro Shibata

Yoshihiro Tanaka

Yukio Ohta

Yuji Hatagishi

Yoshitsugu Sawada

Akira Maeda

Kazuyuki Shiraki

Naoto Taguchi

Toshikazu Nohara

Hiromichi Shigenobu

Shigemi Hashizawa

Kazuto Ohtaka

Keishi Jinno

Takeya Miwa

Hirotaka Noda

Naoki Manabe

Hatsushi Akamine

Motomi Iyoda

Tsuneo Shiga

Yoshiyuki Iwamoto

In a vehicle display device having displays fitted in a grained panel of an instrument panel of a vehicle and serving to emit a display light to an outside during lighting, a front face of each of the displays is covered with a screen having a grained pattern which is provided with a large number of minute holes capable of transmitting the display light. Consequently, a screen can be seen through the minute holes of the screen when the display is turned on, while the display is hidden by the grained screen when the display is turned off. Therefore, the whole portion including the part having the display fitted therein is unified to be grained.

Display device

Electrical connector housing

The rotary plate of the cam member is formed with cam grooves symmetrical about the rotating shaft of the rotary plate. The rotating shaft has a rotary retainer plate at its end. A pair of mating housings are each provided with a cam follower pin that engages with the respective cam grooves. One of the housings is formed with a pin guide groove that guides the rotating shaft of the cam member and the cam follower pin of the other housing. At the dead end of the pin guide groove is formed an enagement completion opening from which the rotary retainer plate can be pulled out when the both housings are completely engaged together. The fact that the mating female and male housings are engaged or disengaged by the rotating operation of the cam member and that the cam member is allowed to be removed only when the mating housings are completely engaged, prevents any incomplete engagement of the housings and assures highly reliable electrical connections while at the same time requiring a small operating force during the engagement process.

Low-operating-force connector

Housing for electrical connector

Housing for an electrical connector

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Toyota, Japan

Yasuhiro Nagasaka