# US 2025/0167486 A1 · Connector, connector assembly and connector separation method

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- Number: US 2025/0167486 A1
- Document ID: US20250167486A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 18/938,885
- Filed: 2024-11-06
- Published: 2025-05-22
- Earliest claimed: 2023-11-17
- Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
- Applicants: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
- Inventors: Hiroki MATSUYAMA
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250167486A1

## CPC

- H01R 13/6215: {using one or more bolts}
- H01R 13/635: by mechanical pressure, e.g. spring force
- H01R 13/6591: Specific features or arrangements of connection of shield to conductive members
- H01R 43/26: for engaging or disengaging the two parts of a coupling device (structural association with two-part coupling device H01R13/629)
- H01R: ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS

## Abstract

A connector includes a shield shell fixable to a fixing member provided with a mating connector by a stud bolt, and a connector body held inside the shield shell and connectable to the mating connector by an axial force of the stud bolt. The shield shell includes an internally threaded hole threadably engageable with the stud bolt and is fixable to the fixing member by threadably engaging a nut with the stud bolt threadably engaged with the internally threaded hole and passed through a through hole of the fixing member. The connector body is separable from the mating connector by being relatively moved in a separation direction with respect to the mating connector by an axial force of a separation bolt threadably engaged with the internally threaded hole with the stud bolt and the nut removed and with the through hole closed by a closing member.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A connector, comprising:
a shield shell fixable to a fixing member provided with a mating connector by a bolt; and
a connector body held inside the shield shell, the connector body being connectable to the mating connector by being relatively moved in a connection direction along a first axis with respect to the mating connector by an axial force of the bolt,
the shield shell including an internally threaded hole threadably engageable with the bolt, the shield shell being fixable to the fixing member by threadably engaging a nut with the bolt threadably engaged with the internally threaded hole and passed through a through hole of the fixing member, and
the connector body being separable from the mating connector by being relatively moved in a separation direction along the first axis with respect to the mating connector by an axial force of a separation bolt threadably engaged with the internally threaded hole with the bolt and the nut removed and with the through hole closed by a closing member.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The connector of claim 1, wherein:
the shield shell includes a tubular shell body for accommodating the connector body and an extending portion projecting from the shell body in a direction orthogonal to the first axis and provided with the internally threaded hole, and
the internally threaded hole is so provided that a through axis thereof coincides with a center of the shell body when viewed from a projecting direction of the extending portion.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

A connector assembly, comprising the connector of claim 1, the mating connector, the fixing member, the bolt and the nut,
the bolt being a stud bolt.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The connector assembly of claim 3, comprising a locking nut for preventing loosening of the stud bolt with respect to the internally threaded hole by being threadably engaged with a part of the stud bolt projecting from the internally threaded hole.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

A separation method of the connector of claim 1 fixed to the fixing member, comprising:
an untightening step of releasing a tightened state by removing the nut and the bolt;
a closing step of closing the through hole by the closing member; and
a separating step of separating the connector body from the mating connector by relatively moving the connector body in the separation direction with respect to the mating connector by an axial force generated in threadably engaging the separation bolt with the internally threaded hole.