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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2001
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
In a sensor attachment structure, a lead wire connecting a sensor is pinched in a pinch portion provided at a tip side portion of an extending bar, proximate to the sensor. The pinch portion has a protrusion that protrudes from the end surface of the pinch portion toward the sensor. A contact surface of the protrusion is inclined toward the sensor from a protruding direction of the pinch portion to have an inclination angle equal to or larger than a deflection angle that is formed at the tip side of the extending bar against the extending direction of the lead wire. Accordingly, even when a tensile force F is exerted to the lead wire opposite to the sensor side, a component force of the tensile force F along the contact surface becomes zero or is directed to the base of the pinch portion.