Open-and-close structure for cap and charging connector
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsTomokazu Iwami, Yoshinobu Furuya
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Abstract
An open-and-close structure 1A for a cap includes a housing 2, a cap 3 rotatably supported on the housing 2, and a biasing member 43 configured to apply a biasing force near a rotation shaft 42 of the cap 3, wherein open position-maintaining means configured to maintain the cap 3 at an open position by a biasing force of the biasing member 43 and reaction force application means configured to apply a reaction force in a closing direction by the biasing member 43 to the cap 3 in response to a further movement of the cap 3 in an open direction from the open position are provided on at least one of a support portion 32 that is a cap-side sliding contact portion or a sliding contact member 45 that is a biasing member-side sliding contact portion.
Claims10
An open-and-close structure for a cap, comprising:
- a housing containing an electrical connection portion;
- the cap rotatably supported on the housing and configured to, at a closed position, close an opening portion of the housing and, at an open position, expose the electrical connection portion through the opening portion;
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- a biasing member configured to apply a biasing force near a rotation shaft of the cap,
- wherein the cap opens and closes while a cap-side sliding contact portion provided on the cap and a biasing member-side sliding contact portion provided on the biasing member make a sliding contact with each other, and
- wherein open position-maintaining means configured to maintain the cap at the open position by a biasing force of the biasing member and reaction force application means configured to apply a reaction force in a closing direction by the biasing member to the cap in response to a further movement of the cap in an open direction from the open position are provided on at least one of the cap-side sliding contact portion or the biasing member-side sliding contact portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.