Complex electrical connection device

A complex electrical connection device having both a function of shorting three or more shorting target wires to each other and a mutually connecting function of mutually connecting pairs of mutual connection target wires different from the shorting target wires one-to-one, comprising:

• a first connector;
• and
• a second connector connectable to the first connector in a specific connector connecting direction;
• the first connector including first shorting female terminals having female electrical contact portions and to be mounted on ends of selected ones of the shorting target wires, mutual connection female terminals having female electrical contact portions and to be mounted on an end of a first wire of each the pairs of the mutual connection target wires, and a first connector housing configured to hold the first shorting female terminals and the mutual connection female terminals in such an orientation that all the electrical contact portions of the first shorting female terminals and the mutual connection female terminals face in the same direction;
• the second connector including second shorting female terminals having female electrical contact portions and to be mounted on ends of the shorting target wires other than those on which the first shorting female terminals are to be mounted, mutual connection male terminals having male electrical contact portions fittable to the electrical contact portions of the mutual connection female terminals and to be mounted on an end of a second wire of each of the pairs of the mutual connection target wires, a shorting member made of a conductor and configured to short a plurality of female terminals including the first shorting female terminals and the second shorting female terminals, the shorting member integrally including a base, first male terminal portions projecting in a first projecting direction from the base and shaped to fit to the electrical contact portions of the first shorting female terminals and second male terminal portions projecting from the base in a second projecting direction opposite to the first projecting direction and shaped to fit to the electrical contact portions of the second shorting female terminals, the shorting member forming a shorting circuit configured to short the first shorting female terminals to be connected to the first male terminal portions and the second shorting female terminals to be connected to the second male terminal portions to each other, and a second connector housing connectable to the first connector housing in the connector connecting direction;
• the second connector housing including a housing fitting portion to be fit to the first connector housing, a shorting member holding portion configured to hold the shorting member at a position where the first shorting female terminals held in the first connector housing are connected to the first male terminal portions as the first connector housing is fit to the housing fitting portion, a male terminal holding portion configured to hold the mutual connection male terminals at positions that are deviated from the shorting member in a direction perpendicular to the connector connecting direction and where the mutual connection female terminals held in the first connector housing are connected to the mutual connection male terminals as the first connector housing is fit to the housing fitting portion, and a female terminal holding portion configured to hold the second shorting female terminals at positions where the second shorting female terminals are connected to the second male terminal portions.