Abstract: A ceiling-mounted electric component assembly is provided. A molded ceiling for fastening to a vehicle ceiling is provided with an aperture for mounting therein an electric component. Conductors extend across the electric component mounting aperture. A circuit body receiver plate is provided to cover the mounting aperture. The electric component is mounted on the circuit body receiver plate, with the conductors positioned the former and the latter such that the electric component is electrically connected to at least one of the conductors. An additional circuit body is optionally mountable on the circuit body receiver plate.The mounting of electric components on the vehicle ceiling is facilitated, and various electric components can be optionally mounted.

Abstract: A roof module for automobile in which a function-intensive unit is mounted on a body of an automobile, electrical modules, and control circuits for the electrical modules, and the unit is combined with a formed ceiling to easily distribute the wire harness and easily mount functional electrical modules such as room mirrors, resulting in improved workability.

Abstract: An electric equipment unit is mounted to a mount opening as in an instrument panel. The unit has on top a panel-connecting means electrically connected with its internal circuit, and on opposite left and right sides at an upper portion thereof clamps and at a lower portion thereof support shaft means. The mount opening has on its upper inner surface a unit-connecting means, on opposite left and right inner surfaces at an upper portion thereof fixing holes and at a lower portion thereof shaft-receiving means. The unit is rotated and mounted to the mount opening, with its support shaft means engaged in the mount opening shaft-receiving means, so that the clamps fit in the fixing holes, while at the same time the panel-connecting means is contacted and electrically connected with the unit-connecting means.

Abstract: On a vehicle roof, there are mounted an air-conditioning unit and a molded ceiling panel having an aperture opened to a duct of the air-conditioning unit, a bezel fitted into the aperture and mounted with one or more of a switch, a lamp, and an instrument. An electrical equipment module has a connector for electrically connecting the switch, the lamp, or the instruments. A roof wiring harness has a preliminarily oriented connector secured thereto. The roof air-conditioning unit has a connector receiving portion provided in the side of the duct. The connector receiving portion can receive the preliminarily oriented connector of the roof wiring harness. The electrical equipment module can be attached to the roof air-conditioning unit through the aperture of the molded ceiling panel so that the connector of the electrical equipment module connects with the preliminarily oriented connector.

Abstract: A unit side connector (15) is provided on top of an electric equipment unit (C), which connector has a first connector body (16), and first and second guide flanges (24, 24'). A wait connector (26) is fixed at the ceiling section of an automobile body panel, which connector has a second connector body (27), a connector cover (30), an insertion guide groove (32), and support pieces (33). The unit side connector (15), after its first guide flange (24) is inserted into the insertion guide groove (32), is as a whole pushed against the connector cover (30), and then slid toward the second connector body (27) to cause the first and second connector bodies (16, 27) to be fitted and connected to each other and the second guide flanges (24, 24') to be supported on the support pieces (33). A connector device is provided which enables a connecting operation to be performed easily even at unfavorable positions such as at the ceiling section of an automobile cabin which requires an operator to look up during work.

Abstract: A plurality of surface terminals are disposed on the peripheral surface of the base casing of an electrical module, and a plurality of connection terminals which are joined to the surface terminals are disposed on the peripheral wall of the module accommodating portion of an instrument panel. Guide grooves are provided in the peripheral wall of a front casing, and anchoring pins which are anchored to the guide grooves are provided in the peripheral wall of the module accommodating portion so that the pins can freely be protruded into or retracted from the module accommodating portion. By fitting the electrical module into the module accommodating portion, the electrical module is fixed to the instrument panel and also the surface terminals are joined to the connection terminals.