JPH097678A - Electric connecting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To impart flexibility and freedom in delivering direction of each connecting wire to a cover body in a connector having a connecting terminal and the cover body. CONSTITUTION: A cover body 13 has a flat part 13a for pressing each connecting wire 31 to one end side of a connector housing 11 and a projection part protruded on the lower surface in the corner part of the flat part 13a. A connecting terminal 12 is mounted on the projection part, the connecting terminal 12 is inserted to an optional insert hole 11c of the connector housing 11 so that the cover body 13 can be fixed regardless of the size of the connector housing 11, and flexibility and freedom in delivering direction of each connecting wire 31 are imparted to the cover body 13.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electrical connecting device for electrically connecting a plurality of connecting wires on the one hand and a plurality of connecting wires on the other hand.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a form of an electrical connecting device for electrically connecting a plurality of connecting wires on the one hand and a plurality of connecting wires on the other hand, a plurality of insertion holes arranged in parallel are provided inside a frame body. A connector housing, a plurality of female connection terminals provided at the tip of each first connecting wire and fixed by being inserted into the insertion holes from one end side of the connector housing, and fixed to one end side of the connector housing A first connector having a cover body for holding each of the first connection lines and pointing in a predetermined direction, a connector housing having a plurality of insertion holes arranged in parallel inside the frame body, and a tip end portion of each second connection line. A plurality of male type connection terminals that are provided in the connector housing and are fixed by being inserted into the insertion holes from one end side of the connector housing; Serial there is an electrical connection device and a second connector having a cover body directed in a predetermined direction while holding the second connecting line.

In the electrical connecting apparatus, the two connectors are fitted to each other at the other end of each connector housing to electrically connect the male connecting terminals and the female connecting terminals to each other. The cover is made of rubber. The cover body includes a cap-shaped cover body fitted to one end side of the connector housing 2 and a cylindrical introduction portion protruding from one end side of the cover body, and fixed to each insertion hole of the connector housing via a connection terminal. The plurality of connected wires function as a wiring harness in a bundle shape so as to be directed in a predetermined direction through the introduction portion.

[0004]

Therefore, in the connector constituting the electrical connecting device of the type, the cover body is a dedicated one having a size corresponding to the connector housing whose size is determined by the number of connecting wires. However, there is a problem that the number of types of cover bodies increases depending on the type of connector housing, and the directivity direction of the connection line is restricted to a certain direction.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a cover body with versatility in an electrical connection device of this type so that the cover body can be used regardless of the size of the connector housing. The purpose is to reduce the number from the number corresponding to the type of connector housing, and to have a degree of freedom in the directional direction of the connection line.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a connector housing having a plurality of insertion holes arranged in parallel inside a frame body,
A plurality of female connection terminals provided at the tip of each first connection wire and fixed by being inserted into the insertion holes from one end side of the connector housing, and each of the first and second connection terminals fixed to one end side of the connector housing. A first connector having a cover body that holds one connection line and is oriented in a predetermined direction, a connector housing having a plurality of insertion holes arranged in parallel inside the frame body, and provided at the tip of each second connection line. A plurality of male connection terminals inserted into and fixed to the insertion holes from one end side of the connector housing, and the second male connection terminals fixed to one end side of the connector housing.
A second connector having a cover body for holding the connecting wire and directing in a predetermined direction, and fitting both connectors together at the other end of each connector housing to form each male connection terminal; And an electrical connection device for electrically connecting each female connection terminal to each other, in a cover body on at least one side of the both connectors, a flat plate portion that presses each connection line at one end side of the connector housing. , Adopting a cover body that projects from the lower surface of the flat plate portion and has a protrusion to which one of the two connection terminals is attached, and insert the connection terminal with the cover body attached to the protrusion into each of the connector housings. It is characterized by being inserted into one of the holes and fixed.

In the electrical connecting device according to the present invention,
As a cover body, a pair of covers including a flat plate portion that presses each of the connection wires at one end side of the connector housing, and a protruding portion that projects from the lower surface of the flat plate portion and to which either one of the connection terminals is attached. It is possible to employ a body and provide a joining means for joining the cover bodies so as to be movable along the joining end surfaces of the flat plate portions.

[0008]

In the electrical connecting device thus constructed, the cover body which constitutes the connector is fixed to any insertion hole of the connector housing through the connecting terminal at the projecting portion thereof. The mounting position of the cover body with respect to the connector housing can be arbitrarily changed according to the number of connection lines and the fixed position, whereby an arbitrary portion on one end side of the connector housing can be covered. Therefore, in the electrical connection device, it is not necessary to use a dedicated cover body corresponding to the connector housing, and the number of cover bodies corresponding to the type of the connector housing is not required. The number can be reduced from the number corresponding to the type of connector housing.

Further, since the cover body presses and fixes each connecting wire on one end side of the connector housing by the flat plate portion thereof, each connecting wire is led out from all four sides of the flat plate portion. Can be directed in any direction, increasing the degree of freedom in the direction of directivity of each connection line.

In the connector constituting the electrical connection device, as the cover body, one of a flat plate portion for pressing each connection wire at one end of the connector housing and both connection terminals protruding from the lower surface of the flat plate portion. By adopting a pair of cover bodies each having a protruding portion to which is attached, and a joining means for movably joining along the joint end faces of the flat plate portions is provided between these cover bodies, both cover bodies are provided. Can be attached to the connector housing by appropriately shifting their flat plate portions, whereby the cover body can be made to function by arbitrarily changing the area of the pressing portion.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
1 and 2 show both connectors that constitute an electrical connecting device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The electrical connection device includes a first connector 10 having a female connection terminal.
And a second connector 20 having male connection terminals. The two connectors 10, 20 are fitted to each other at their other ends to connect the connection terminals to each other. The first connector 10 is a connector housing 11
, A large number of female connection terminals 12, a pair of cover bodies 13,
And a second connector 20.
Is a connector housing 21 and a large number of male connection terminals 2
2 and a pair of cover bodies 23 and 24.

The connector housing 11 constituting the first connector 10 is made of synthetic resin, and as shown in FIGS. 1 to 5, a rectangular frame 11a having a predetermined height is partitioned by a partition wall 11b. In addition, a large number of insertion holes 11c defined by partition walls 11b are formed in the frame body 11a. Further, the connector housing 21 constituting the second connector 20 is also made of synthetic resin, and as shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 5, the inside of the frame 21a having a rectangular shape and having a predetermined height serves as a partition wall 21b. A large number of insertion holes 21c defined by partition walls 21b are formed in the frame body 21a, and a rectangular accommodation chamber 21d that opens to the other end side is formed. Accommodation room 21
d is formed in a size into which the connector housing 11 of the first connector 10 is inserted, and a hook hole 21e is formed in a wall portion forming a side portion of the housing chamber 21d of the frame 21a. . When the connector housing 11 is fitted into the housing chamber 21d, the hooking hole 21e is hooked by the hooking protrusion 11d provided on the outer peripheral wall of the connector housing 11.
Both connector housings 11 and 21 are fixed to each other.

The female type connecting terminal 12 is made of metal, and as shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 6 to 8, the plate portion 12a is formed.
Gripping pieces 12b, 12c, 12 provided in three stages in the longitudinal direction of the
Of d, the first and second gripping pieces 12b and 12c are crimped to be attached to the connecting wire 31, and the third gripping piece 12d at the lower end is bent to be formed into a tubular connecting portion 12e. . The bent piece 12f is located in the cylindrical connection portion 12e and functions as a spring member. Each female connection terminal 12 attached to the tip of each connection wire 31 is inserted into each insertion hole 11c of the connector housing 11 to form the plate portion 12a.
A hooking hole 12g provided in the above is hooked and fixed to a hooking protrusion 11e provided on the inner wall of the insertion hole 11c, and a cylindrical connecting portion 12e is opened to the other end side of the insertion hole 11c.

The male connecting terminal 22 is made of metal, and as shown in FIGS. 1, 2, and 6 to 8, the plate portion 22a is formed.
Grasping pieces 22b, 22c, 22 provided in four stages in the longitudinal direction of the
Of d and 22e, the first gripping piece 22b and the second gripping piece 22
It is attached to the connecting wire 32 by crimping c. In addition, the tip of the plate portion 22a is formed into a blade-shaped connecting protrusion 22f in a folded state, and the hooking piece 2 is provided between the third and fourth gripping portions 22d and 22e.
2 g are formed. Each male connection terminal 22 attached to the tip of each connection wire 32 is inserted into each insertion hole 21c of the connector housing 21, and is provided on the inner wall of the insertion hole 21c by the hooking piece 22g provided on the plate portion 22a. Is fixed by being hooked in the hooking hole 21f.
f projects into the accommodation chamber 21d through the other end of the insertion hole 22c.

Each cover body 13, 1 of the first connector 10
4 has the same shape, and as shown in FIGS. 1 to 4 and 9, the flat plate portions 13a and 14a and the flat plate portions 13a and 14a.
Projections 13b, 14b projecting downward from the lower surface of the corner of the
And the joint arms 13c and 14c protruding in the width direction on the upper surfaces of the flat plate portions 13a and 14a, and the flat plate portion 1
3a and 14a are provided with long-hole-shaped joining holes 13d and 14d extending in the longitudinal direction from the vicinity of the joining arms 13c and 14c. Female connecting terminals 12 are caulked and attached to the protrusions 13b and 14b of the cover bodies 13 and 14, respectively. The tip ends of the joint arms 13c and 14c of the cover bodies 13 and 14 are inserted into the joint holes 14d and 13d, and in the inserted state, the joint holes 14c and 13c are formed along the joint end faces of the flat plate portions 13a and 14a. It is movably joined in the longitudinal direction.

In the joined state of the cover bodies 13 and 14, the joined state of the maximum pressing area shown in FIG. 9A, the joined state of the minimum pressing area shown in FIG. 9B, and the state between them. It can be joined in a state of an arbitrary pressing area, and by inserting each female type connection terminal 12 attached to the projecting portions 13b, 14b of each cover body 13, 14 into one of the insertion holes 11c of the connector housing 11. Each insertion hole 11c is fixed to one end of the connector housing 11 and has an arbitrary pressing area as shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 4.
The connection wires 31 fixed to the connector housing 11 are positioned in a state of being pressed against one end side of the connector housing 11. Second connector 20
The respective cover bodies 23, 24 are also formed similarly to the respective cover bodies 13, 14 and are similarly fixed to one end side of the connector housing 21.

In the electrical connecting device configured as described above, in order to connect the plurality of connecting lines 31 and 32 to each other,
The first connector 10 and the second connector 20 are fitted to each other at their other ends. As a result, the other end of the connector housing 11 of the first connector 10 has the accommodation chamber 21 of the connector housing 21 of the second connector 20.
While being inserted into d, the projecting connecting portions 22f of the male connecting terminals 22 of the second connector 20 are inserted into the cylindrical connecting portions 12e of the female connecting terminals 12 of the first connector 10 to form a cylindrical connection. It is elastically gripped by the bent piece 12f and the fourth gripping piece 12d in the portion 12e. As a result, the female connection terminals 12 and the male connection terminals 22 are connected to each other, and the connection lines 31 and the connection lines 32 are electrically connected.

By the way, in the electrical connecting apparatus, the cover body 13 which constitutes both connectors 10 and 20,
14, 23, 24 are the protrusions 13b, 14b, 23
b, 24b is to be fixed to any one of the insertion holes 13c, 23c of the connector housings 11, 21 via the connection terminals 12, 22.
Corresponding to the number of two and the fixed position, cover bodies 13, 1
It is possible to arbitrarily change the mounting positions of the connector housings 11, 23 and 24 with respect to the connector housings 11, 21, and thus it is possible to cover a desired portion on one end side of the connector housings 11, 21. Therefore, in the electrical connection device, the cover bodies 13, 14, 23, 24 do not need the cover bodies of the types corresponding to the types of the connector housings 11, 21, and the cover bodies 13, 14, 2,
The number of types 3, 24 can be reduced from the number corresponding to the type of connector housings 11, 21.

Further, the cover bodies 13, 14, 23, 2 are
4 is a flat plate portion 13a, 14a, 23a, 24a, each connecting wire 31, 32 to connect the connector housing 11, 21
Since it is pressed and fixed to one end side of each of the connection lines 31, the connection lines 31 and 32 can be derived and directed from any of the four sides of the flat plate portions 13a, 14a, 23a, and 24a. It is possible to increase the degree of freedom in the direction of directivity of 31, 32.

Further, in both connectors 10 and 20 constituting the electrical connection device, a pair of cover bodies 13, 14, 23 and 24 having the same structure are adopted as the cover bodies, and the both cover bodies 13 and 14, 23, 24 are movable along the joint end faces of the flat plate portions 13a, 14a, 23a, 24a. Therefore, the cover bodies 13, 14, 2
3, 24, these flat plate portions 13a, 14a, 23a,
Connector housing 1 with 24a displaced appropriately
1,21, which can be attached to these cover bodies 1
By appropriately changing the joining state of 3, 14, 23, and 24, the pressing area with respect to the connection lines 31 and 32 can be made to function arbitrarily.

In the electrical connecting device according to the present invention, when the number of connecting wires 31 and 32 is small, the cover bodies 13 and 14 forming the connectors 10 and 20,
One cover body 13, 23 as 23, 24, or 1
4, 24 can be adopted.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional view (a) of a female connector and a vertical cross-sectional view (b) of a male connector constituting an electrical connection device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is another vertical cross-sectional view (a) of the female connector and another vertical cross-sectional view (b) of the male connector.

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of one connector constituting the electrical connection device.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of one end side of one connector that constitutes the electrical connection device.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view (a) of a connector housing that constitutes a female connector of the same electrical connection device and a perspective view (b) of a connector housing that constitutes a male connector.
It is.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view (a) of a female connection terminal and a perspective view (b) of a male connection terminal that form each connector of the electrical connection device.

FIG. 7 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a connection state of the both connection terminals.

8 is a transverse cross-sectional view of the two connection terminals taken along the line 8-8 in FIG.

FIG. 9 is a plan view (a) showing a joined state of the maximum pressing areas of both cover bodies constituting the same electrical connection device, and a plan view (b) showing a joined state of the minimum pressing areas.

[Explanation of symbols]

10, 20 ... Connector, 11, 21 ... Connector housing, 11c, 21c ... Insertion hole, 12 ... Female connection terminal, 22 ... Male connection terminal, 12e ... Cylindrical connection part, 22f
... Projected connection parts, 13, 14, 23, 24 ... Cover body,
13a, 14a, 23a, 24a ... Flat plate portion, 13b, 1
4b, 23b, 24b ... Protrusions, 13c, 14c, 23
c, 24c ... Joined arm portion, 13d, 14d, 23d, 24
d ... Joining holes, 31, 32 ... Connection lines.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A connector housing having a plurality of insertion holes arranged side by side inside a frame body, which is provided at the tip of each first connecting line and is inserted into and fixed to each of the insertion holes from one end side of the connector housing. A plurality of female connection terminals, and a first connector having a cover body fixed to one end side of the connector housing for holding each of the first connection lines and directing in a predetermined direction, and arranged in parallel inside the frame body. Connector housing having a plurality of insertion holes, each second
A plurality of male type connection terminals which are provided at the tip of the connection line and are inserted into and fixed to the insertion holes from one end side of the connector housing, and the second connection lines fixed to one end side of the connector housing. And a second connector provided with a cover body which is oriented in a predetermined direction and which is fitted to each other at the other end side of each of the connector housings to form the male connection terminals and the male connection terminals. In an electrical connection device for electrically connecting female connection terminals to each other, as a cover body on at least one side of the both connectors, a flat plate portion that presses each of the connection lines at one end side of the connector housing, A cover body that projects from the lower surface of the flat plate portion and has a protrusion to which either one of the connection terminals is attached is used, and the cover body is attached to the protrusion. Electrical connecting apparatus characterized by inserting and fixing to one of the digits of the connection terminals each insertion hole of the connector housing. 2. The electrical connection device according to claim 1, wherein a flat plate portion that presses each of the connection wires at one end side of the connector housing as a cover body, and the both connections that project from a lower surface of the flat plate portion. A pair of cover bodies having a projection to which either one of the terminals is attached is adopted, and a joining means is provided between the cover bodies so as to be movable along the joint end faces of the flat plate portions. Electrical connection device characterized by.