Yazaki Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuhiro Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Aihara

Hajime Kato

Hayato Iizuka

Takeshi Innan

Kazuma Watanabe

Hideki Mizuno

Yoshitaka Ohkubo

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Nobuaki Yoshioka

Sachiko Yagome

Takahiro Chaen

Yuichiro Matsumoto

Takayoshi Endo

Sakai Yagi

Motohisa Kashiyama

Yuji Hatagishi

Toshiharu Takahashi

Mitsuhiro Matsumoto

Tsuyoshi Mizushima

Takaaki Miyajima

Takeyuki Hamaguchi

Masayuki Kataoka

Takanori Kanamori

Yasuhiro Otsuta

Hiroaki Imai

Toshihiko Yamamoto

Junichi Hamamoto

Miki Nakamura

Ikuo Morita

Syoichi Nomura

Naoki Fujimoto

Hiroshi Fujita

Masahiro Nakagawa

Nolio Kawamura

Kazuki Shirosaka

Hiroshi Kawano

A bus bar includes a wiring pathway made from a conductive material and having bent portions bending at at least two sites of the wiring pathway. The wiring pathway includes members consecutively arranged to form a plate shape. At least two of the members have different characteristics. The members adjacent to each other are connected to each other by laser joining.

Bus bar

A connector includes: an electric wire; a terminal connected to the electric wire; a housing having a housing space to house a connection portion of the electric wire and the terminal; a seal member to seal an opening portion of the housing space to isolate the connection portion housed in the housing space from an outside; and a heat storage member located in the housing space.

Connector

A connector includes a terminal, an electric wire, and a housing having a tubular portion that accommodates the terminal and the electric wire therein. An electric wire connection portion and a terminal connection portion are provided on both end sides of the terminal. The electric wire connection portion is connected to the electric wire. A joining portion between an end surface of the electric wire connection portion and an end surface of the electric wire includes a protruding piece protruding in a radial direction of the electric wire connection portion. A first retaining piece and a second retaining piece configured to be locked to the protruding piece are provided on an inner peripheral surface of the tubular portion. The second retaining piece is disposed at a position shifted from the first retaining piece in both a circumferential direction and an axial direction of the tubular portion.

Electric wire terminal retained within a connector housing and method of manufacture thereof

A braided part connection structure includes a braided part having a tubular shape covering an insulated wire along a longitudinal direction of the braided part connection structure and a shield member having a tubular shape and electrically connected and fixed to the braided part. The shield member includes a braided part joining portion having a plurality of openings arranged at intervals along a circumferential direction of the shield member in a portion of the shield member in the longitudinal direction, and a welding portion defined by two openings adjacent to each other of the plurality of openings. The braided part covers the braided part joining portion and is welded to the welding portion.

Braided part connection structure

A bus bar includes members made from a conductive material and consecutively arranged to form a plate shape defining a wiring pathway. The members adjacent to each other have connection surfaces at which the members adjacent to each other are connected to each other by laser joining. The members adjacent to each other include at least one tolerance buffer between the members adjacent to each other. In the at least one tolerance buffer, the connection surfaces of the members adjacent to each other have different widths.

A connection structure of a press-clamping terminal and a cable has: a cable that has a core wire and an insulation sheath that covers the core wire; a press-clamping terminal that is press-clamped to the core wire exposed from the insulation sheath at a terminal of the cable; and a cut portion that has a cross section formed in a semicircular shape and is formed in a press-clamping direction in the exposed core wire.

Connection structure of press-clamping terminal and cable

A connection structure of a bus bar and a cable has: a bus bar that serves as an external terminal; a cable that has a core wire exposed from an insulation sheath at a terminal, the core wire being joined with the bus bar; a protective member that covers at least a joining portion of the bus bar and the core wire of the cable; and a cut portion that is formed in the core wire at the joining portion with the bus bar.

Connection structure of bus bar and cable

A connecter terminal structure includes: a male housing of a male connecter; a male terminal accommodated in the male housing and including a first electrical contact portion; a stepped shaft portion formed at a tip end of the first electrical contact portion; a hood portion surrounding the first electrical contact portion; an annular terminal spring externally fitted to the stepped shaft portion; and an insulating cap fixed to a tip end of the stepped shaft portion and configured to hold the annular terminal spring. The connecter terminal structure further includes: a female housing of a female connecter; a female terminal accommodating portion configured to be fitted into the hood portion; and a female terminal accommodated in the female terminal accommodating portion and including a second electrical contact portion having a tubular shape to allow the first electrical contact portion to be inserted therein.

Connecter terminal structure

A connector includes a housing, a terminal, and an electric wire line. The housing is fittable to a mating housing that houses a mating terminal. The terminal is housed in the housing, and includes a tubular electric connection portion into which the mating terminal is inserted. The electric wire line includes at least a terminal end portion housed in the housing, and is electrically connected to the terminal. In the connector, the electric connection portion houses a multi-contact coil spring that is formed to have an elastically-deformable annular shape, is electrically connected to the electric connection portion, and is brought into contact at a plurality positions with the mating terminal inserted thereinto, and the terminal and at least the terminal end portion of the electric wire line are insert-molded in the housing.

A terminal is to be connected to a mating terminal having a flat surface portion. The terminal includes a conductive main body having an abutment surface, an annular terminal spring, the annular terminal spring being held on the abutment surface and a fastener holding the annular terminal spring on the abutment surface. The fastener includes a main body shaft being inserted into a central space of the annular terminal spring, a first end of the main body shaft being fixed to the conductive main body, and a plurality of arm portions extending outward in a radial direction of the fastener from a second end of the main body shaft, the second end being opposite to the first end, the plurality of arm portions being configured to hold the annular terminal spring at a contacting portion of the annular terminal spring, the contacting portion contacting the abutment surface.

Terminal and connector

A conductor connecting structure includes: first and second conductors having terminal portions; a support having recessed portions; first screw members accommodated in the recessed portions; and second screw members that co-fasten the terminal portions of the first and the second conductors by screwing to the first screw members. The recessed portions have first and second wall surfaces that face each other in an opposing direction, and restricting surfaces along the opposing direction to restrict the rotation of the first screw members. The first and second wall surfaces configure a retaining portion to retain the first screw member before being screwed, and an allowable portion located closer to the inlet of the recessed portion. The distance between the first and the second wall surfaces in the allowable portion is greater than the distance in the retaining portion.

Conductor connecting structure with a screw member retaining portion

A surge voltage reduction member includes a tubular magnetic body having a through-hole and at least one coil wire. The coil wire is inserted through the through-hole and has a winding portion which is winded around a portion of the magnetic body. The coil wire is formed by connecting a bent coil element wire and a straight coil element wire. Where the coil wire has two or more bent coil element wires, the winding portion is formed by connecting the through-hole passing portion of one of adjacent bent coil element wires to the outside passing portion of the other of the adjacent bent coil element wires and connecting the outside passing portion of the one of the adjacent bent coil element wires to the straight coil element wire.

Surge voltage reduction member

A surge voltage reducing member includes: a magnetic body including a long-side portion and short-side portions continuously formed at both ends of the long-side portion in a longitudinal direction; and a plurality of conductive paths wound around the long-side portion. Each of the conductive paths is wound in parallel along the longitudinal direction of the long-side portion.

Surge voltage reducing member with reduced size

A routing structure of electrical wires and a wire harness include multi-phase electrical wires and a magnetic core having a ring shape, around which the electrical wires are winded. The magnetic core has a division type in which the first component constituting a part of the ring shape, and the second component constituting a remaining part of the ring shape are connected. The electrical wires with all the phases may be winded around the first component.

Routing structure of electrical wires and wire harness

A wire harness includes: a wire part including a plurality of electric wires gathered in a same direction; and a shield member which collectively surrounds an outer periphery of the wire part. The shield member is disposed to be interposed between adjacent electric wires of the plurality of electric wires in the wire part. The adjacent electric wires in the wire part are arranged at a predetermined interval such that a predetermined value of electrostatic capacitance is established between the electric wires.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Yasuhiro Yamaguchi