Connector and connector with electric wires including the connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11664621-B2
Application number	US-202117503564-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 18, 2021
Priority date	Oct 19, 2020
Publication date	May 30, 2023
Grant date	May 30, 2023

Abstract

A connector with electric wires includes a housing mounted to a vehicle body, two terminals housed in the housing, and two electric wires each connected to the terminal. The two electric wires are drawn out from openings of the housing with the two electric wires disposed in a longitudinal direction (arrow Y direction) and extended straight in a direction (arrow X direction) orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the terminal. Inside the housing, the two terminals and the two electric wires are arranged on the same plane.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A connector comprising:
a housing; and
a plurality of terminals housed in the housing, wherein
each of the terminals is arranged to extend in a linear direction,
one end side of each of the terminals is configured to be connected to a mating connector, and another end side of each of the terminals is configured to be connected to an electric wire,
the plurality of terminals and a plurality of the electric wires connected to the plurality of terminals are arranged on a same plane in the housing, and
the plurality of electric wires is drawn out from openings of the housing with the plurality of electric wires disposed in the linear direction and extended straight,
the housing includes a first housing configured to house the one end side of the plurality of terminals and a second housing configured to house the another end side of the plurality of terminals and ends of the plurality of electric wires, and
the second housing is capable of being mounted to the first housing in two orientations including a first orientation and a second orientation, the second orientation being an inverted orientation inverted with respect to the first orientation.

2. A connector arrangement comprising:
the connector according to claim 1 ; and
the plurality of electric wires.

3. A connector arrangement comprising
a connector; and
a plurality of electric wires, wherein
the connector comprises:
a housing; and
a plurality of terminals housed in the housing, wherein

each of the terminals is arranged to extend in a linear direction,
one end side of each of the terminals is configured to be connected to a mating connector, and another end side of each of the terminals is configured to be connected to the electric wire,
the plurality of terminals and the plurality of the electric wires connected to the plurality of terminals are arranged on a same plane in the housing,
the plurality of electric wires is drawn out from openings of the housing with the plurality of electric wires disposed in the linear direction and extended straight,
a wire-side terminal is attached to an end of each of the electric wires, and
the terminal that is located closest to the openings is directly connected the wire-side terminal, and another terminal is connected to the wire-side terminal via an intermediate terminal.

4. The connector arrangement according to claim 3 , wherein
the plurality of wire-side terminals are disposed in the linear direction, and
an insulating member is mounted inside the housing, the insulating member providing an insulation between the wire-side terminals located adjacent to each other.

Assignees

• Yazaki Corp

Inventors

• Matsushita Yuki
• Aoshima Shinsuke
• Kato Tomoki

Classifications

• H01R2201/26

  for vehicles · CPC title

• H01R13/46

  Bases; Cases · CPC title

• H01R11/12

  End pieces terminating in an eye, hook, or fork · CPC title

• H01R4/56

  one conductor screwing into another · CPC title

• H01R13/502

  composed of different pieces (H01R13/514 takes precedence) · CPC title