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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 07, 1998
Masaaki Ishiguro, Hokkaido, JP;
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an electrical junction box, a female connector is provided in an upper cover adapted to cover the upper surface of a circuit board having a plurality of bus bars, a male connector engaging with the female connector is fixed with a bolt, a nut engaged with the bolt is supported by a nut support in the female connector, a cylindrical hollow is formed in the nut support, and a scraping-scattering preventing section which is fitted in the cylindrical hollow is formed on the circuit board. Hence, even if the bolt or the nut forms metal scrapings when the former is engaged with the latter, the scrapings are accommodated in the receiving pan of the scraping-scattering preventing section; that is, they are prevented from dropping on the circuit board.