Battery terminal
AssigneeSumito Wiring Systems, Ltd.
InventorsTadayoshi Asao, Nori Inoue, Kazumoto Konda
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Abstract
A battery terminal comprising first and second tightening plates continuous with an open free end of an annular electrode-engaging portion into which a battery post is inserted; and an electric wire-connecting portion continuous with the first tightening plate or the second tightening plate or the electrode-engaging portion, in which the first tightening plate is moved toward the second tightening plate to close the free end of the electrode-engaging portion so that the battery terminal is fixed to the battery post. In the above construction, a nut is tightened downward on the bolt to move the sliding contact portion downward along the inclined portion so that the first tightening plate is moved toward the second tightening plate.
Claims4
In a battery terminal including first and second tightening plates continuous with an open free end of an annular electrode-engaging portion into which a battery post is inserted;
- and an electric wire-connecting portion continuous with the first tightening plate or the second tightening plate or the electrode-engaging portion, in which the first tightening plate is moved toward the second tightening plate to close the free end of the electrode-engaging portion so that the battery terminal is fixed to the battery post, the battery terminal comprising;
- a tightening strip disposed above the second tightening plate formed on the first tightening plate integrally or continuously therewith;
- an elongated groove formed on the tightening strip in the direction in which the first tightening plate is moved toward the second tightening plate;
- a sliding contact portion formed at an end of the tightening strip in the longitudinal direction of the elongated groove;
- a tightening substrate formed integrally with the second tightening plate;
- a bolt installed upward on the tightening substrate through the elongated groove;
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- an inclined portion along which the sliding contact portion slides formed integrally with the tightening substrate,
- whereby a nut is tightened downward on the bolt to move the sliding contact portion downward along the inclined portion so that the first tightening plate is moved toward the second tightening plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.