US 10,897,095 B2Granted

Terminal cover

AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.

InventorNaoki Hikota

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Abstract

A terminal cover (10) protects a terminal fitting (12) that has a barrel (18) crimped to a wire (W). The terminal cover (10) includes an accommodating portion (20) having a front opening (22), and the barrel (18) is accommodated in the accommodating portion (20). A lid (16) covers the front opening (22) of the accommodating portion (20), and two pressing portions (34) project obliquely toward the barrel (18) from opposed left and right inner wall (32A, 32B). The pressing portions (34) resiliently contact sides (18A, 18B) of the barrel (18). Each pressing portion (34) has a tapered end (38) inclined toward the front opening (22), and the tapered ends (38) resiliently contact the sides (18A, 18B) of the barrel (18). The barrel (18) is pushed toward the front opening (22) and sandwiched between the lid (16) and the pressing portions (34) by reaction forces of the pressing portions (34).

Claims4

Dependent claims

A terminal cover (10) for protecting a terminal fitting (12) to be crimped to an end part of a wire (W) and including a barrel (18), comprising:

an accommodating portion (20) including an opening (22), the barrel (18) being accommodated into the accommodating portion (20) through the opening (22);
a lid (16) configured to cover the opening (22) of the accommodating portion (20);
and
two plate-like pressing portions (34) projecting obliquely toward the barrel (18) from first and second opposed inner walls (32A, 32B) of the accommodating portion (20) that face each other in a direction intersecting both an axial direction of the opening (22) and an extending direction of the wire (W), the pressing portions (34) respectively resiliently contacting both sides of the barrel (18);
end parts of each of the pressing portions (34) in a projecting direction being formed into a taper (38) inclined toward the opening, the tapers (38) of the pressing portions (34) resiliently contacting both sides of the barrel (18), the barrel (18) being pushed toward the opening and sandwiched between the lid 16) and the pressing portions (34) by reaction forces of the pressing portions (34).

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/666,997Filed 29 Oct 2019
Priority: JP 2018-20389030 Oct 2018
Published: US 2020/0136279 A130 Apr 2020
Granted: 19 Jan 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H01R 4/70
Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or…:…
H01R 4/183
By crimping: for cylindrical elongated bodies, e.g. cables having circular cross-section
H01R 9/16
Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, e.g. terminal strips or terminal blocks; Terminals…
H01R 4/184
For cylindrical elongated bodies, e.g. cables having circular cross-section: comprising a U-shaped wire-receiving portion