Connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10644463-B2
Application number	US-201816231634-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 24, 2018
Priority date	Dec 26, 2017
Publication date	May 5, 2020
Grant date	May 5, 2020

Abstract

A connector (10) has terminals (30) connected to wires (W), a housing (20) configured to accommodate the terminals (30), a retainer (40) configured to accommodate the wires (W) while retaining the terminals (30) accommodated in terminal accommodating portions (22) of the housing (20), a temperature sensor (60) to be accommodated in a sensor accommodating portion (56) in the retainer (40) and a holder (80) to be assembled with the retainer (40). The holder (80) has a large divided body (75) and two small divided bodies (70) coupled to the large divided body (75) via hinges (72). The small divided bodies (70) and the large divided body (75) retain the temperature sensor (60) in the sensor accommodating portion (56) while the wires (W) are inserted between the small divided bodies (70) and the large divided body (75).

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrical connector, comprising:
a terminal having opposite front and rear ends, the front end being configured to connect to a mating terminal, the rear end being connected to a wire;
a housing having opposite front and rear ends and configured to accommodate the terminal, the front end of the housing surrounding the front end of the terminal and the rear end of the housing surrounding the wire;
a retainer mounted to the rear end of the housing and configured to accommodate the wire pulled out from the rear end of the housing while retaining the terminal accommodated in the housing;
a temperature sensor arranged along the wire and accommodated in a sensor accommodating portion provided in the retainer, signal wires extending rearward from the temperature sensor; and
a holder assembled with the retainer;
the holder having at least first and second divided bodies that are adjacent to one another and coupled via a hinge; and
the second divided bodies body being formed with a signal wire insertion hole configured to retain the signal wires extending rearward from the temperature sensor accommodated in the sensor accommodating portion, the second divided body further being formed with a wire insertion hole communicating with the signal wire insertion hole and configured to retain the wire extending rearward from the terminal, the first divided body being configured to press the wire is inserted between the divided bodies against both the signal wires and the temperature sensor.

2. The electrical connector of claim 1 wherein:
the adjacent divided bodies are assembled by rotating first divided body with the hinge as a support and assembling the first divided body with the second divided body.

3. The electrical connector of claim 2 , wherein the second divided body includes a guide configured to guide the first divided body to a proper assembled position when the first divided body deviates from a proper rotation track when rotating the first divided body and assembling the first divided body with the second divided body.

4. The electrical connector of claim 3 , wherein:
the first divided body includes a resiliently deformable resilient lock to be locked to a locked frame provided in the second divided body by being inserted into the locked frame; and
the guide guides the resilient lock toward and into the locked frame when the first divided body deviates from the proper rotation track.

5. The electrical connector of claim 1 , wherein:
the second divided body includes two wire arranging portions configured to arrange the wires; and
the divided bodies include two first divided bodies assembled with the second divided body to face the two wire arranging portions around the wire.

6. The electrical connector of claim 2 , wherein the first divided body includes an auxiliary guide provided on a side where the hinge is provided, the auxiliary guide being configured to guide the first divided body to a proper assembled position by sliding on a surface of the second divided body extending in a direction intersecting a rotating direction of the first divided body.

7. The electrical connector of claim 2 , wherein the divided bodies include positional deviation preventing portions configured to suppress a positional deviation of a mating position of the adjacent divided bodies by contacting each other in a direction intersecting an assembling direction of the adjacent divided bodies.

8. A connector, comprising:
a terminal connected to a wire;
a housing configured to accommodate the terminal;
a retainer configured to accommodate the wire pulled out from the housing while retaining the terminal accommodated in the housing;
a temperature sensor arranged along the wire and accommodated in a sensor accommodating portion provided in the retainer; and
a holder assembled with the retainer;
the holder having at least first and second divided bodies that are adjacent to one another and coupled via a hinge; and
the divided bodies being configured to retain the temperature sensor accommodated in the sensor accommodating portion while the wire is inserted between the adjacent divided bodies wherein:
the adjacent divided bodies are assembled by rotating first divided body with the hinge as a support and assembling the first divided body with the second divided body; and
the second divided body includes a guide configured to guide the first divided body to a proper assembled position when the first divided body deviates from a proper rotation track when rotating the first divided body and assembling the first divided body with the second divided body.

9. The connector of claim 8 , wherein:
the first divided body includes a resiliently deformable resilient lock to be locked to a locked frame provided in the second divided body by being inserted into the locked frame; and
the guide guides the resilient lock toward and into the locked frame when the first divided body deviates from the proper rotation track.

10. The connector of claim 8 , wherein:
the second divided body includes two wire arranging portions configured to arrange the wires; and
the divided bodies include two first divided bodies assembled with the second divided body to face the two wire arranging portions around the wire.

11. The connector of claim 8 , wherein the first divided body includes an auxiliary guide provided on a side where the hinge is provided, the auxiliary guide being configured to guide the first divided body to the proper assembled position by sliding on a surface of the second divided body extending in a direction intersecting a rotating direction of the first divided body.

12. The connector of claim 8 , wherein the divided bodies include positional deviation preventing portions configured to suppress a positional deviation of a mating position of the adjacent divided bodies by contacting each other in a direction intersecting an assembling direction of the adjacent divided bodies.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Wiring Systems

Inventors

• TANIZAKI Toshifumi
• Kito Yu

Classifications

• H01R13/5812

  the cable clamping being achieved by mounting the separate part on the housing of the coupling device · CPC title

• H01R2201/26

  for vehicles · CPC title

• H01R13/428

  by resilient locking means on the contact members; by locking means on resilient contact members · CPC title

• H01R13/501

  comprising an integral hinge or a frangible part · CPC title

• H01R13/4223

  comprising integral flexible contact retaining fingers · CPC title