Attaching structure of connector
AssigneesYazaki Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasahiro Deno, Yasukazu Chikamatsu, Bunji Nomura, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Hajime Oyanagi
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Abstract
An attaching structure of a connector for attaching a connector to an attached portion, includes: a holding unit which holds the connector at an attaching position by sliding the connector in a direction of intersecting with a superimposing direction of the connector and the attached portion to superimpose the connector on the attached portion; and a pair of holes provided at the connector and the attached portion for passing a screw member by being communicated with each other when the connector is disposed at the attaching position.
Claims12
An attaching structure for attaching a connector to an attached portion, the attaching structure comprising:
- a pair of notched portions provided in the attached portion to be spaced apart from each other;
- a first hole provided in the attached portion between the pair of notched portions so that a straight line extending from at least one point on one of the pair of notched portions to at least one point on the other of the pair of notched portions intersects the first hole;
- first holding portions which are provided on each of the pair of the notched portions;
- second holding portions which are provided on the connector and are attached to the first holding portions of the attached portion, respectively, by sliding the connector relative to the attached portion to superimpose the connector on the attached portion;
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- a second hole provided in the connector for passing a fixing member into the first and second holes when the connector is disposed at an attaching position, wherein:
- the first holding portions are inserting portions being outer edges of the pair of notched portions, respectively, provided in the attached portion,
- the second holding portions are a pair of groove portions being provided at outer surfaces of the connector,
- the outer edges of the pair of notched portions pass through the pair of groove portions, respectively,
- each of the groove portions define a generally U-shaped channel comprising two legs, and
- each of the outer edges are received between the two legs of the respective groove portion when the connector is disposed at the attaching position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.