Connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9496643-B2
Application number	US-201615054344-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 26, 2016
Priority date	Oct 4, 2013
Publication date	Nov 15, 2016
Grant date	Nov 15, 2016

Abstract

A connector includes a female terminal having an elastically deformable contact portion; a housing; a rotary cylinder rotatably mounted to the housing; and a slider movably mounted in a cylinder axis direction via a motion direction converting mechanism, in which the motion direction converting mechanism is configured to move the slider from a first cylinder axis position to a second cylinder axis position when the rotary cylinder is rotated from a first rotation position to a second rotation position, the slider is formed to be separated from a contact portion at the first cylinder axis position and press the contact portion at the second cylinder axis position, and the contact portion of the female terminal is formed to come into pressing contact with the male terminal by being pressed by the slider.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A connector comprising:
a female terminal having an elastically deformable contact portion;
a housing in which the female terminal is accommodated;
a rotary cylinder configured to be rotatably mounted to the housing; and
a slider configured to be movably mounted in a cylinder axis direction of the rotary cylinder via a motion direction converting mechanism which converts rotary motion of the rotary cylinder about a cylinder axis into linear motion in the cylinder axis direction of the rotary cylinder,
wherein the motion direction converting mechanism is configured to move the slider from a first cylinder axis position to a second cylinder axis position when the rotary cylinder is rotated from a first rotation position to a second rotation position,
the slider is formed to be separated from the contact portion of the female terminal at the first cylinder axis position and is formed to press the contact portion of the female terminal at the second cylinder axis position, and
the contact portion of the female terminal is positioned to face the male terminal inserted into the housing and is formed to come into pressing contact with the male terminal by being pressed by the slider.

2. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein
as the motion direction converting mechanism, at least one protrusion is formed on one of an inner cylindrical surface of the rotary cylinder and an outer peripheral surface of the slider, and at least one spiral groove configured to engage with the protrusion is formed on the other,
when the rotary cylinder is rotated about the cylinder axis from the first rotation position to the second rotation position, the protrusion relatively moves along the spiral groove to make the slider to move from the first cylinder axis position to the second cylinder axis position, and
when the rotary cylinder is rotated about the cylinder axis from the second rotation position to the first rotation position, the protrusion relatively moves along the spiral groove to make the slider to retreat from the second cylinder axis position to the first cylinder axis position.

3. The connector according to claim 2 , wherein
the spiral groove includes a track groove in which the protrusion relatively moves along the cylinder axis direction, and two restriction grooves which are respectively provided at both ends of the track groove to restrict the relative movement of the protrusion in the cylinder axis direction, and
the restriction grooves are grooves that are parallel to a circumferential direction of the rotary cylinder or the slider and communicate with end portions of the track groove.

4. The connector according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an operation member configured to be mounted on the rotary cylinder and move along an outer surface of the housing to rotate the rotary cylinder about the cylinder axis.

5. The connector according to claim 2 , further comprising:
an operation member configured to be mounted on the rotary cylinder and move along an outer surface of the housing to rotate the rotary cylinder about the cylinder axis.

6. The connector according to claim 3 , further comprising:
an operation member configured to be mounted on the rotary cylinder and move along an outer surface of the housing to rotate the rotary cylinder about the cylinder axis.

Assignees

• Yazaki Corp

Inventors

• Kato Hajime
• Imai Hiroaki

Classifications

• H01R13/502

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

• H01R13/629

  Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure {electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances (separate tools or apparatus H01R43/26)} · CPC title

• H01R13/623 Primary

  Casing or ring with helicoidal groove · CPC title