Electrical connection box

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016276818-A1
Application number	US-201615063204-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 7, 2016
Priority date	Mar 19, 2015
Publication date	Sep 22, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

An electrical connection box includes a terminal supporting wall that has a rescue terminal portion of a bus bar arranged on the front surface and is provided as a single piece with a block main body, and a cover member that exposes and covers the terminal supporting wall and the rescue terminal portion. Bearing holes are provided in the terminal supporting wall on one end side in the left-right direction, rotation support shaft portions that are rotatably fitted into the bearing holes are provided as protrusions on the cover member, the rescue terminal portion is exposed by rotating the cover member from an opening/closing end on the other end side in the left-right direction with the rotation support shaft portions serving as fulcrums, and ribs for holding the cover member in an isolating state are provided as protrusions on the opening/closing end side of the cover member and are semi-locked into latching depressions provided on the terminal supporting wall.

First claim

1 . An electrical connection box comprising a terminal supporting wall that has a rescue terminal portion of a bus bar arranged on a front surface and is provided as a single piece with a block main body, and a cover member that exposes and covers the terminal supporting wall and the rescue terminal portion;
wherein bearing holes are provided in the terminal supporting wall on one end side in a left-right direction, rotation support shaft portions that are rotatably fitted into the bearing holes are provided as protrusions on the cover member, the rescue terminal portion is exposed by rotating the cover member from an opening/closing end on another end side in the left-right direction with the rotation support shaft portions serving as fulcrums, and ribs for holding the cover member in an isolating state are provided as protrusions on the opening/closing end side of the cover member and are semi-locked into latching depressions provided on the terminal supporting wall.

2 . The electrical connection box according to claim 1 ,
wherein step-shaped depressions are provided on a rear surface of the terminal supporting wall, a pair of terminal protrusions provided on two sides of tips of clip pieces on two sides of an alligator clip connected to a booster cable being fitted into and latched by the step-shaped depressions; and a terminal protrusion of the clip piece on one side of the alligator clip is brought into contact with the rescue terminal portion on the front surface side, and the pair of terminal protrusions of the clip piece on the other side of the alligator clip are respectively fitted into and latched by the step-shaped depressions on the rear surface side such that clamping is achieved.

3 . An electrical connection box comprising a terminal supporting wall that has a rescue terminal portion of a bus bar arranged on a front surface is provided as a single piece with a block main body;
wherein step-shaped depressions are provided on a rear surface of the terminal supporting wall, a pair of terminal protrusions provided on two sides of tips of clip pieces on two sides of an alligator clip connected to a booster cable being fitted into the step-shaped depressions; and a terminal protrusion of the clip piece on one side of the alligator clip is brought into contact with the rescue terminal portion on the front surface side, and the pair of terminal protrusions of the clip piece on the other side of the alligator clip are respectively fitted into and latched by the step-shaped depressions on the rear surface side such that clamping is achieved.

4 . The electrical connection box according to claim 1 ,
wherein the electrical connection box is a fuse relay box or the like installed in an engine compartment of a hybrid automobile, a bus bar for connection to a battery installed in a rear portion of the automobile is accommodated inside the block main body of the electrical connection box, and the rescue terminal portion is formed by extending a portion of the bus bar upward; and the terminal supporting wall is provided by extending a partition wall in the block main body upward as a projection, and when the cover member attached to the terminal supporting wall is rotated to an opened position, the cover member is located higher than a fuse and/or relay installed in the block main body.

5 . The electrical connection box according to claim 3 ,
wherein the electrical connection box is a fuse relay box or the like installed in an engine compartment of a hybrid automobile, a bus bar for connection to a battery installed in a rear portion of the automobile is accommodated inside the block main body of the electrical connection box, and the rescue terminal portion is formed by extending a portion of the bus bar upward; and the terminal supporting wall is provided by extending a partition wall in the block main body upward as a projection, and when the cover member attached to the terminal supporting wall is rotated to an opened position, the cover member is located higher than a fuse and/or relay installed in the block main body.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Wiring Systems

Inventors

• Aoki Osamu
• Shiraki Takashi

Classifications

• B60R16/0238 Primary

  Electrical distribution centers · CPC title

• H02G5/08 Primary

  Connection boxes therefor · CPC title

• B60R16/033

  characterised by the use of electrical cells or batteries (for propulsion puposes B60K1/04; supplying batteries to, or removing batteries from, vehicles B60S5/06; testing of charge state G01R31/36) · CPC title

• H02G3/081

  Bases, casings or covers · CPC title

• H02G3/08

  Distribution boxes; Connection or junction boxes · CPC title