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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2000
Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Mie, JP;
Abstract
A connector for electrical terminals includes a housing that has a plurality of cavities, a plurality of respective resiliently deformable locking members, and a plurality of respective terminals. Each terminal is inserted in a respective cavity and has (a) a partially inserted position in which the terminal bears on the respective locking member to deform the locking member so that the locking member is raised with respect to a peripheral surface of the housing, and (b) a fully inserted position in which the locking member snap-fits to the terminal thereby locking the terminal in said cavity. The connector further includes a bus bar holder having a sleeve which accommodates a plurality of bus bar tab pieces. The sleeve is push-fitted over the peripheral surface of the housing to install the bus bar holder to the housing and to contact the tab pieces to the terminals, whereby the terminals are electrically connected to each other. Each locking member has an end surface portion which is adapted so that when, on push-fitting of the sleeve, a terminal is in the partially inserted position with the respective locking member raised with respect to the peripheral surface of the housing, the sleeve bears on the end surface portion to prevent installation of the bus bar holder.