Joint connector and method assembling the same
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorKaoru Matsumura
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Abstract
A joint connector includes a plurality of connection terminals, each of the connection terminals including a contact portion, a housing fixing portion and a press-fitting portion, a connector housing that includes a plurality of terminal fixing portions for fixing the corresponding housing fixing portions of the connection terminals, and a board that includes a plurality of through holes in which the corresponding press-fitting portions of the connection terminals are press-fitted respectively so as to electrically connect the connection terminals. The board is disposed in contact with the terminal fixing portion of the connector housing.
Claims3
A method of assembling a joint connector, comprising:
- providing a plurality of connection terminals, each of the connection terminals including a contact portion, a housing fixing portion and a press-fitting portion;
- providing a connector housing that includes a plurality of terminal fixing portions;
- providing a board that includes a plurality of through holes,
- inserting the connection terminals into a terminal receiving jig so that the housing fixing portions and the press-fitting portions are projected from the terminal receiving jig;
- fitting the connector housing on the connection terminals so as to fix the terminal fixing portions to the housing fixing portions projecting from the terminal receiving jig;
- setting the board on the connector housing so as to insert the press-fitting portions into the through holes;
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- pressing the board so as to contact with the terminal fixing portions of the connector housing so that the housing fixing portions are press-fitted into the terminal fixing portions, and the press-fitting portions are press-fitted into the through holes respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.