# US 10,122,107 B2 · Connection device having a resin member between a relay terminal and a conductive terminal > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,122,107 B2 - Document ID: US10122107B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/726,161 - Filed: 2017-10-05 - Published: 2018-05-10 - Granted: 2018-11-06 - Earliest claimed: 2016-11-10 - Assignees: Yazaki Corporation - Applicants: Yazaki Corporation - Inventors: Fuminori Sugiyama - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10122107B2 ## CPC - H01R 13/052: {co-operating with sockets having a circular transverse section} - B60R 16/03: for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems {or for (circuit arrangements for charging batteries H02J7/00)} - H01R 13/10: Sockets for co-operation with pins or blades - H01R 13/14: Resiliently-mounted rigid sockets - H01R 13/187: with spring member in the socket - H01R 13/2414: {conductive elastomers} - B60L 15/007: {Physical arrangements or structures of drive train converters specially adapted for the propulsion motors of electric vehicles} - B60Y 2410/115: Electric wiring; Electric connectors - H01R 2201/26: for vehicles - H01R: ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS - B60R: VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES - B60Y: INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO ASPECTS CROSS-CUTTING VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY ## Abstract A connection device includes a conductive first counterpart terminal formed into a tubular shape with one side in a first direction open and the other side blocked, a conductive relay terminal provided inside the first counterpart terminal, an interposition member provided inside the first counterpart terminal, and interposed between the first counterpart terminal and the relay terminal with respect to intersection directions, an elastic member provided inside the first counterpart terminal, interposed between a blocked end portion that is an end portion on the blocked side of the first counterpart terminal and the relay terminal 31 with respect to the first direction, and elastically deformable along the first direction, and a second counterpart terminal that is a conductive terminal different from the first counterpart terminal and coming in contact with an end portion on an opposite side of the elastic member side of the relay terminal. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A connection device comprising: a conductive first counterpart terminal formed into a tubular shape, one side of the first counterpart terminal in a first direction being opened and the other side thereof being blocked; a conductive relay terminal provided inside the first counterpart terminal and formed extending along the first direction; a conductive interposition member provided inside the first counterpart terminal, interposed between the first counterpart terminal and the relay terminal with respect to an intersection direction intersecting with the first direction, and being in contact with the first counterpart terminal and the relay terminal; an elastic member provided inside the first counterpart terminal, interposed between the relay terminal and a blocked end portion that is an end portion on the blocked side of the first counterpart terminal with respect to the first direction, and elastically deformable along the first direction; and a second counterpart terminal that is a conductive terminal different from the first counterpart terminal, and coming in contact with an end portion on an opposite side of a side of the elastic member of the relay terminal with respect to the first direction, wherein the elastic member includes a resin member to be filled between the blocked end portion and the relay terminal. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The connection device according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the relay terminal and the second counterpart terminal includes a connection surface planarly formed along the intersection direction intersecting with the first direction, and coming in contact with the other of the relay terminal or the second counterpart terminal. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The connection device according to claim 1, wherein the first counterpart terminal configures a first connector to be provided in a first device, and the second counterpart terminal configures a second connector to be provided in a second device different from the first device. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The connection device according to claim 2, wherein the first counterpart terminal configures a first connector to be provided in a first device, and the second counterpart terminal configures a second connector to be provided in a second device different from the first device.