Wire harness with tolerance absorption for positional displacement
AssigneesAutonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
InventorsDaichi Kawaguchi, Toshiya Hirooka, Jisung Kim
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Abstract
A wire harness including: a wire; a wire-side terminal that is electrically connected to the wire; and a terminal block to which the wire-side terminal is attached, wherein: the terminal block includes a holding fitting that holds the wire-side terminal in a state where the wire-side terminal is electrically connected to a contact, the holding fitting includes a plate, and at least one of the wire-side terminal and the holding fitting includes a curved surface that is in contact with the other of the wire-side terminal and the holding fitting in a state where rotation in two directions around two axes that intersect each other is allowed.
Claims16
A wire harness comprising:
- a wire;
- a wire-side terminal that is electrically connected to the wire;
- and
- a terminal block to which the wire-side terminal is attached, wherein:
- the terminal block includes a holding fitting that holds the wire-side terminal in a state where the wire-side terminal is electrically connected to a contact, wherein the holding fitting includes a first holding fitting and a second holding fitting, together which sandwich a portion of the wire-side terminal,
- the holding fitting includes a plate, and
- at least one of the wire-side terminal and the holding fitting includes a curved surface that is in contact with the other of the wire-side terminal and the holding fitting in a state where rotation in two directions around two axes that intersect each other is allowed.
A wire harness comprising:
- a wire;
- a wire-side terminal that is electrically connected to the wire;
- and
- a terminal block to which the wire-side terminal is attached, wherein:
- the terminal block includes a holding fitting that holds the wire-side terminal in a state where the wire-side terminal is electrically connected to a contact,
- the holding fitting includes a plate,
- at least one of the wire-side terminal and the holding fitting includes a curved surface that is in contact with the other of the wire-side terminal and the holding fitting in a state where rotation in two directions around two axes that intersect each other is allowed,
- the holding fitting is formed in a cylindrical shape, and has a plurality of slits arranged side by side in a circumferential direction, and a depression that is located between the plurality of slits and is depressed radially inward, and
- the curved surface is provided on a radially inner side of the depression.
A wire harness comprising:
- a wire;
- a wire-side terminal that is electrically connected to the wire;
- and
- a terminal block to which the wire-side terminal is attached, wherein:
- the terminal block includes a holding fitting that holds the wire-side terminal in a state where the wire-side terminal is electrically connected to a contact,
- the holding fitting includes a plate,
- at least one of the wire-side terminal and the holding fitting includes a curved surface that is in contact with the other of the wire-side terminal and the holding fitting in a state where rotation in two directions around two axes that intersect each other is allowed, and
- material deformation due to contact pressure occurs in the curved surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.