Rotary connector
AssigneeMolex Incorporated
InventorsToshihiro Niitsu, Shigeyuki Hoshikawa, Kimiyasu Makino
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Abstract
Rotary electrical connector comprising a ring-shaped outside terminal having a circular inner circumference portion, a ring-shaped inside terminal having a circular outer circumference portion, which is concentric with the inner circumference portion of the ring-shaped outside terminal; and a rotatable ring-shaped connection terminal electrically connecting the outside terminal with the inside terminal; wherein the connection terminal elastically deforms along a radial direction thereof, an outer circumference portion of the connection terminal abutting the inner circumference portion of the outside terminal and the outer circumference portion of the inside terminal.
Claims5
A rotary connector for electrically connecting wires of two relatively rotating connection target members, comprising:
- (a) a ring-shaped outside terminal having a circular inner circumference portion and connected to the wire of one connection target member;
- (b) a ring-shaped inside terminal having a circular outer circumference portion, which is concentric with the inner circumference portion of the ring-shaped outside terminal, and connected to the wire of the other connection target member;
- and
- (c) a rotatable ring-shaped connection terminal electrically connecting the ring-shaped outside terminal and the ring-shaped inside terminal, and the ring-shaped connection terminal is positioned along the axial direction by insulators alternately superimposed on the ring shaped outside terminal and the ring-shaped inside terminal;
- wherein
- (d) the ring-shaped connection terminal elastically deforms along a radial direction thereof, and an outer circumference portion of the ring-shaped connection terminal abuts the inner circumference portion of the ring-shaped outside terminal and the outer circumference portion of the ring-shaped inside terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.