US 5,490,798 AGranted

Connector examining device

AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.

InventorsMakoto Murakami, Michimasa Noro, Takao Ito

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Abstract

A connector examining device in which a retainer for attaching a terminal within a housing can be pushed into the housing simultaneous with an examination of a connector. When a lever is pulled up, a cam comes in contact with a trailing end surface of a detector portion. This allows the detector portion to slide toward a connector receiving portion. After the detector portion is in contact with the connector receiving portion, the connector receiving portion and the detector portion together are further displaced. At this time, a retainer pusher, fixed to a base, pushes into the housing the retainer temporarily engaged with the housing of the connector held by the connector receiving portion. Thus, the retainer and the terminal within the housing are engaged with one another, and the terminals are engaged with the housing.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A connector examining device used to check an electrical connector which has an engagement member that is temporarily engaged with a housing of the connector and is pushable into the housing, whereby the engagement member and a terminal within the housing are engaged with each other to attach the terminal to the housing, said examining device comprising

a connector receiving portion for holding the connector to be checked,
a detector portion located in opposition to said connector receiving portion and having a detector which corresponds to the terminal of the connector to be checked and which protrudes toward said connector receiving portion,
base means for holding said connector receiving portion and said detector portion so that they can be relatively displaced with respect to each other in a direction of extension of said detector,
a pusher that is attached to said detector portion and comes in contact with the engagement member of the connector held by said connector receiving portion, said pusher being displaced relative to said connector receiving portion to push the engagement member into the housing when said connector receiving portion and said detector portion are in a position relatively close to each other and after the terminal is in contact with said detector.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/397,764Filed 2 Mar 1995 · division
Priority: JP 4-2361423 Sep 1992
Granted: 13 Feb 1996
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G01R 31/66
Testing of electric apparatus, lines, cables or components for short-circuits, continuity, leakage current or incorrect line connections: testing…
G01R 31/69
Testing of releasable connections, e.g. of terminals mounted on a printed circuit board: of terminals at the end of a cable or a wire harness; of…
H01R 43/26
Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or…
G01R
Measuring electric variables