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US 10,374,337 B2Granted
Terminal block
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorsShinya Tsuji, Yoshikazu Tajiri, Tatsuro Ishikawa, Kiyokazu Matsunaga
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Abstract
A terminal block includes a housing that has an opening through which a wire is to be inserted, a terminal configured to be connected to the wire that is inserted through the opening, and a plate spring member configured to fix the wire by pressing the wire against the terminal. The plate spring member has a pressing portion configured to press the wire against the terminal, and a plastic deformation preventing portion configured to prevent the pressing portion from bending in a direction away from the terminal by more than a predetermined amount.
Claims17
A terminal block comprising:
- a housing that has an opening into which a wire is to be inserted;
- a terminal configured to be connected to the wire that is inserted through the opening;
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- a plate spring member configured to fix the wire by pressing the wire against the terminal, wherein:
- the plate spring member is formed from a band-shaped metal plate and comprises:
- a pressing portion opposed to the terminal and configured, in response to the wire being inserted through the opening in the housing, to press the wire against the terminal thereby sandwiching the wire between the pressing portion and the terminal;
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- a plastic deformation preventing portion configured to prevent the pressing portion from bending in a direction away from the terminal by more than a predetermined amount;
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- a bottom portion of the housing comprises a support having a slope that conforms to a surface of the plastic deformation preventing portion and supports the plastic deformation prevention portion so as to prevent bending of the plastic deformation preventing portion in response to a force applied to the plastic deformation preventing portion by the pressing portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.