JP7153199B2 - terminal - Google Patents

Description

The present disclosure relates to terminals.

Patent Literature 1 describes a terminal that is screwed to a device or the like. A terminal is formed by integrally forming a fixing portion fixed to a terminal connecting portion of a device or the like and a wire crimping portion crimped to an end of a wire.

JP-A-10-223280

When a peripheral wall portion is provided on the side of the terminal connection portion in a device or the like, the terminal interferes with the peripheral wall portion, and the fixing portion of the terminal cannot be fixed to the terminal connection portion.

A terminal of the present disclosure is a terminal connected to a mating member, and the mating member includes a connected portion to which the terminal is connected and a peripheral edge of the connected portion that extends in a first direction. and a peripheral wall portion, wherein the terminal includes a connection portion, an upright portion, and a side wall portion, the connection portion being connected to the connected portion, and the upright portion extending from the outer edge of the connection portion to the third terminal. The side wall portion extends laterally from a side edge of the standing portion extending in the first direction, and the side wall portion extends from the lower surface of the connecting portion connected to the connected portion. is larger than the height dimension of the peripheral wall portion.

According to the present disclosure, it is possible to provide a terminal in which the connecting portion of the terminal can be connected to the connected portion even when the peripheral wall portion is provided on the side of the connected portion.

1 is a perspective view of a terminal according to an embodiment; FIG. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a state in which the terminals are connected to the mating member.

[Description of Embodiments of the Present Disclosure]
First, the embodiments of the present disclosure are listed and described.
The terminals of the present disclosure are
(1) A terminal connected to a mating member, wherein the mating member includes a connected portion to which the terminal is connected and a peripheral wall portion extending in a first direction from the peripheral edge of the connected portion. , wherein the terminal includes a connecting portion, an upright portion, and a side wall portion, the connecting portion being connected to the connected portion, and the upright portion extending from the outer edge of the connecting portion in the first direction. The side wall portion extends laterally from a side edge of the standing portion extending in the first direction, and the base end of the side wall portion extends from the lower surface of the connecting portion connected to the connected portion. is greater than the height dimension of the peripheral wall portion.
Since the side walls are arranged apart from the connection part due to the provision of the standing part, the side walls do not interfere with the peripheral wall when the connection part of the terminal is connected to the connected part of the mating member. can be avoided. Thereby, the connecting portion of the terminal can be connected to the connected portion of the mating member.

(2) Further, the plane of the upright portion and the plane of the side wall portion constitute the same plane, and the side wall portion extends in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. has a crimping portion that is crimped onto the electric wire, and the crimping portion is preferably arranged on the same side of the standing portion as the side on which the connecting portion is arranged.
An electric wire with a terminal is configured by crimping a pair of barrels onto an electric wire. Here, since the connecting portion and the crimping portion are arranged on the same side, it is possible to avoid an increase in the size of the electric wire with the terminal.

(3) Further, it is preferable that the side wall portion has a connecting portion that connects the crimping portion and the standing portion, and the height dimension of the connecting portion is smaller than the height dimension of the standing portion.
In general, crimping results in poor dimensional accuracy because the shape is difficult to stabilize. Therefore, the connecting portion can be formed with higher dimensional accuracy than the crimping portion. Therefore, according to the above configuration, the connection portion serves as a portion for avoiding interference with the peripheral wall portion, so that the connection portion can be reliably prevented from interfering with the peripheral wall portion.

[Details of the embodiment of the present disclosure]
A specific example of the terminal of the present disclosure will be described below with reference to the drawings. The present disclosure is not limited to these examples, but is indicated by the scope of the claims, and is intended to include all modifications within the scope and meaning equivalent to the scope of the claims.

As shown in FIG. 1, the terminal 10 includes a connection portion 12, an upright portion 14, and a side wall portion 16. As shown in FIG. In the following description, the direction indicated by the arrow D1 in FIGS. 1 and 2 is the upward direction (first direction) in the vertical direction. The direction indicated by the arrow D2 in FIGS. 1 and 2 is defined as the rightward direction (second direction perpendicular to the first direction) in the horizontal direction. A direction orthogonal to both the up-down direction and the left-right direction is defined as the front-rear direction.

As shown in FIG. 1, the connecting portion 12 has a plate shape. A fastening hole 12A is opened in the center of the plane of the connecting portion 12 .

As shown in FIG. 1 , the standing portion 14 is provided to stand upward from the outer edge 12B of the connecting portion 12 . Here, the outer edge 12B of the connecting portion 12 is a lateral edge of the outer peripheral edge of the connecting portion 12 extending in the horizontal direction. Since the outer edge 12B is formed by bending the terminal in the unfolded state, it has a straight shape. In addition, as shown in FIG. 2, the right end of the outer edge 12B is positioned to the left of the right end 12C of the connecting portion 12. As shown in FIG. A flat surface 14A of the upright portion 14 is provided with a locking hole 14B.

As shown in FIG. 1 , the side wall portion 16 extends rightward from a side edge 14C extending upward from the standing portion 14 . A plane 14A of the upright portion 14 and a plane 16A of the side wall portion 16 form the same plane. As shown in FIG. 2, the right end 12C of the connecting portion 12 is aligned with the side edge 14C of the standing portion 14 in the left-right direction (see dotted line V in FIG. 2). The right end of the outer edge 12B is positioned to the left of the side edge 14C of the standing portion 14. As shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 1 , the side wall portion 16 includes a crimp portion 18 and a connecting portion 20 . The connecting portion 20 continues to both the crimping portion 18 and the standing portion 14 . Thereby, the connecting portion 20 connects the crimping portion 18 and the standing portion 14 .

As shown in FIG. 1, the crimping portion 18 includes a pair of insulation barrel portions 18A and a pair of wire barrel portions 18B. The pair of insulation barrel portions 18A are crimped to the covering of an electric wire (not shown). The pair of wire barrel portions 18B are crimped to the core wire of an electric wire (not shown). Thus, an electric wire with terminals (not shown) is constructed. The crimping portion 18 (the insulation barrel portion 18A and the wire barrel portion 18B) is located on the same side of the standing portion 14 as the side on which the connection portion 12 is arranged (in FIG. 1, on the front side of the paper surface of the standing portion 14). are placed. Thereby, it can avoid that the electric wire with a terminal becomes large about the front-back direction.

As shown in FIG. 2, terminal 10 is connected to mating member 22 . The mating member 22 has a shape that opens upward. A bottom wall portion of the mating member 22 serves as a connected portion 24 to be connected to the connecting portion 12 of the terminal 10 . The connected portion 24 is provided with a stud bolt 24A protruding upward. 12 A of fastening holes of the connection part 12 are penetrated by the stud bolt 24A. A nut (not shown) is attached to the stud bolt 24A while the fastening hole 12A of the connecting portion 12 is inserted into the stud bolt 24A. As a result, the lower surface 12</b>D of the connecting portion 12 comes into contact with the connected portion 24 and is connected to the connected portion 24 .

As shown in FIG. 2 , the mating member 22 is provided with a peripheral wall portion 26 that extends upward from a peripheral edge 24B of the connected portion 24 . The peripheral wall portion 26 surrounds the connected portion 24 from the sides (front, back, left, and right directions). Of the peripheral wall portions 26 of the mating member 22, the right peripheral wall portion 26A is smaller in height than the other peripheral wall portions 26. As shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 2, the dimension T1 of the height from the lower surface 12D of the connecting portion 12 to the lower end of the connecting portion 20 (that is, the height from the lower surface 12D of the connecting portion 12 to the base end 16B of the side wall portion 16) is It is larger than the height dimension T2 of the peripheral wall portion 26A. Thereby, when the connecting portion 12 of the terminal 10 is connected to the connected portion 24 of the mating member 22, the side wall portion 16 can be prevented from interfering with the peripheral wall portion 26A. Also, the height dimension T3 of the connecting portion 20 is smaller than the height dimension T4 of the standing portion 14 . Thereby, the height position of the connecting portion 20 can be adjusted within the range of the height of the side wall portion 16 . In general, crimping results in poor dimensional accuracy because the shape is difficult to stabilize. Therefore, the connecting portion 20 can be formed with higher dimensional accuracy than the crimping portion 18 . Therefore, by using the connecting portion 20 as a portion to avoid interference with the peripheral wall portion 26A, it is possible to reliably avoid the connecting portion 20 from interfering with the peripheral wall portion 26A. Thereby, the connecting portion 12 of the terminal 10 can be reliably connected to the connected portion 24 of the mating member 22 .

A cover 28 (shown in FIG. 1) is attached to the terminal 10 while the terminal 10 is connected to the mating member 22 . The cover 28 is provided with a lock arm (not shown). The cover 28 is fixed to the terminal 10 in a state of being prevented from coming off by the projection of the lock arm (not shown) being inserted into the locking hole 14B of the upright portion 14 of the terminal 10 .

<Other embodiments>
(1) In the above embodiment, the side wall portion 16 is configured to include the crimping portion 18 and the connecting portion 20. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the side wall portion may be configured to include only the crimping portion. In this case, the crimped portion is directly connected to the side wall portion. Also, the right peripheral wall portion is positioned below the crimping portion.
(2) In the above embodiment, the terminal 10 is provided with the cover 28, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the terminal may be provided with no cover.
(3) In the above embodiment, the counterpart member 22 is provided with the right peripheral wall portion 26A and the other peripheral wall portion 26, but for example, only the right peripheral wall portion may be provided.

10: Terminal 12: Connection portion 12A: Fastening hole 12B: Outer edge 12C: Right end 12D: Lower surface 14: Standing portion 14A: Flat surface 14B: Locking hole 14C: Side edge 16: Side wall portion 16A: Flat surface 16B: Base end 18: Crimp Part 18A: Insulation barrel part 18B: Wire barrel part 20: Joint part 22: Mating member 24: Connected part 24A: Stud bolt 24B: Peripheral edges 26, 26A: Peripheral wall part 28: Covers T1, T2, T3, T4: size

Claims (3)

A terminal connected to a mating member,
The counterpart member includes a connected portion to which the terminal is connected, and a peripheral wall portion extending in a first direction from a peripheral edge of the connected portion,
the terminal includes a connection portion, an upright portion, and a side wall portion;
The connecting portion is connected to the connected portion, the rising portion rises from the outer edge of the connecting portion in the first direction, and the side wall portion extends laterally from a side edge of the rising portion extending in the first direction. has been extended to
The height dimension from the lower surface of the connecting portion connected to the connected portion to the base end of the side wall portion is greater than the height dimension of the peripheral wall portion.nine,
One end of the connecting portion between the connecting portion and the rising portion on the side of the side wall portion is further away from the side wall portion than a side edge of the rising portion on the side farther from the connecting portion than the side wall portion. is located , terminals. The plane of the upright portion and the plane of the side wall portion form the same plane, the side wall portion extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the side wall portion is crimped to the electric wire. 2. The terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a crimping portion which is arranged on the same side of said standing portion as a side on which said connecting portion is arranged. 3. The terminal according to claim 2, wherein said side wall portion has a connecting portion connecting said crimping portion and said standing portion, and the height dimension of said connecting portion is smaller than the height dimension of said standing portion.

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