Connector
AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
InventorsHideto Nakamura, Kei Yanagisawa
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Abstract
A connector has first and second housings (10, 30). The first housing (10) has male terminal fittings (13) and a shorting terminal (15) that is biased into shorting contact against the male terminal fittings (13). A pushing portion (36) displaces receiving pieces (20) of the shorting terminal (15) toward a bottom wall (12W) during connection of two housings (10, 20). The bottom wall (12W) has an escaping portion (22) for avoiding an interference with the receiving pieces (20). The receiving pieces (20) are displaced toward the bottom wall (12W) by the pushing portion (36) and enter the escaping portion (22). Thus the shorting terminal 15 is deformed to a large degree.
Claims11
A connector, comprising:
- first and second housings that are connectable with each other along a connecting direction;
- a plurality of terminal fittings provided in the first housing;
- a shorting terminal provided in the first housing and adapted to normally contact and short the terminal fittings and being resiliently deformable away from the terminal fittings for canceling a shorted state of the terminal fittings;
- receiving pieces formed at the leading end of the shorting terminal and extending oblique to the connecting direction of the housings toward a side wall of the first housing, and
- a pushing portion provided in the second housing and adapted to resiliently deform the shorting terminal in a direction away from the terminal fittings by contacting the receiving pieces to displace them toward the side wall during connection of the housings,
- wherein a through hole extends entirely through the side wall of the first connector housing aligned with the receiving pieces for receiving the receiving pieces and avoiding interference with the receiving pieces when the receiving pieces are displaced toward the side wall by the pushing portion.
A connector, comprising a first housing having a tubular receptacle with an open front end and a bottom wall, a plurality of terminal fittings mounted in the first housing and projecting forwardly into the receptacle along a connecting direction, a shorting terminal mounted in the first housing and having resilient contact pieces cantilevered forwardly in the receptacle and biased into contact with each of said plurality of terminal fittings defining portions of the respective resilient contact pieces closest to the open front end of the receptacle and being aligned obliquely toward the bottom wall, each of said receiving pieces defining a height measured normal to the connecting direction, the bottom wall comprising at least one hole formed completely therethrough at a location aligned with the receiving pieces for receiving the receiving pieces in response to deflection of the respective resilient contact piece, a second housing slidably insertable into the receptacle of the first housing along the connecting direction, the second housing having a pushing portion defining a slanted leading surface disposed for contact with the receiving pieces, the pushing portion being offset from the bottom wall of the receptacle by a distance less than the height of each said receiving piece, whereby the slanted surfaces of the pushing portion slidably engage the receiving pieces and deflect the resilient contact pieces sufficiently for moving the receiving pieces into the respective holes in the bottom wall of the receptacle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.