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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2016
Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Yokkaichi, Mie, JP;
Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Yokkaichi, Mie, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Kazuhiro Washio, Mie, JP;
Yasuo Omori, Mie, JP;
Abstract
It is aimed to provide a method and a joint connector for shorting a plurality of wires to each other, the method and the joint connector being capable of flexibly coping with the number of the wires. A joint connector includes a plurality of wire-side terminals () to be mounted on a plurality of wires (), a plurality of insulating housings () and a shorting member (). Each wire-side terminal () is inserted into a terminal accommodating chamber of the corresponding insulating housing (). The plurality of insulating housings () are united with each other while being arranged in a specific arrangement direction. The shorting member () is inserted into each of the united insulating housings () and fit to each wire-side terminal (), whereby the wire-side terminals () are electrically connected to each other via the shorting member ().