Electrical distribution center assembly having a terminal stabilizer plate

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8926344-B2
Application number	US-201313742660-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 16, 2013
Priority date	Jan 16, 2013
Publication date	Jan 6, 2015
Grant date	Jan 6, 2015

Abstract

An electrical distribution center assembly having a connector including a plurality of terminals and a terminal stabilizer plate engaging the tips of the terminals to hold the terminals in position and resist bending prior to inserting a mating connector into the electrical distribution center assembly. The terminal stabilizer plate is held in a ready position by a releasable latch means until an axial force applied to the releasable latch means by the mating connector body exceeds a force threshold, whereby the terminal stabilizer plate is released from the ready position and is moved to a seated position. The releasable latch means may include a flexible beam or other resilient member to hold the terminal stabilizer plate in the ready position until it is released.

First claim

We claim:

1. An electrical distribution center assembly comprising:
a housing formed of a plastic material and defining an accommodation space therein;
a connector shroud formed by said housing, the connector shroud having a side wall defining a shroud cavity therein for receiving a connector body, the shroud cavity communicating with the accommodation space;
an electrical bus disposed in the accommodation space;
a terminal electrically coupled to said electrical bus, said t…

Assignees

• Delphi Tech Inc

Inventors

• Jozwiak Andrew Joseph
• Wheeler Grant Michael
• Morales Jesus R
• Skolnik Brian

Classifications

• H01R24/66 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• B60R16/0238 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• H01R2201/26

  Electricity · mapped topic