Abstract: An electric connector requiring decreased insertion and withdrawal force, even when including groups of 20 to 40 terminals. The connector includes a male portion, a female portion into which the male portion fits, and a cam mechanism. With the cam mechanism, the male casing fitted in a covering portion of the female casing may be slid horizontally between its original fitting position and a male and female terminal contact position, parallel to the fitting surface of the female casing, so as to slide the male and the female terminals out of or into contact with each other with less force than was required previously.

Abstract: Long and short terminal lugs are installed in alternate slots formed in the connector housing. Each terminal lug consists of an electrical contact portion and a wire connecting portion connected together through an intermediate link portion. The wire connecting portion is larger in width than the electrical contact portion. The wire connecting portions of the long terminal lugs and those of the short terminal lugs are staggered from each other in the axial direction. The long terminal lugs each have a depressed intermediate link portion so that the wire connecting portions of the adjacent short terminal lugs positioned by the side of the depressed intermediate links of the long terminal lugs are given sufficient space and are not interfered with by the wire connecting portions of the adjacent long terminal lugs as in the conventional connectors. This construction allows reduction in the size of the connector housing.

Abstract: A terminal connector to which an electrical wire having a conductor and an insulating cover surrounding the conductor is to be connected is disclosed. The terminal connector has a terminal body having an electrical connecting section to which a partner terminal is to be electrically connected and an electrical wire connecting section to which the electrical wire is to be connected, and a connecting member, which is separate from the terminal body, adapted to be mounted to the wire connecting section to establish electrical connection between the conductor of the electrical wire and the terminal body when the connecting member is mounted to the wire connecting section. The wire connecting section includes a base plate having opposite edges along the elongated direction of the terminal body and side walls integrally formed on the respective edge of the base plate.

Abstract: An electric connector requiring decreased insertion and withdrawal force, even when including groups of 20 to 40 terminals. The connector includes a male portion, a female portion into which the male portion fits, and a cam mechanism. With the cam mechanism, the male casing fitted in a covering portion of the female casing may be slid horizontally between its original fitting position and a male and female terminal contact position, parallel to the fitting surface of the female casing, so as to slide the male and the female terminals out of or into contact with each other with less force than was required previously.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a terminal connector to which an electrical wire having a conductor and an insulating cover surrounding the conductor, which comprises an electrical connecting section to which a partner member is electrically connected, an electrical wire connecting section to which the electrical wire is to be connected, and a connecting member adapted to be mounted to the wire connecting section for electrically connecting the conductor of the electrical wire to the wire connecting section during mounting the connecting member to the terminal connector. The connecting member is formed from a U-shaped plate-like conductive member having a recess in which the electrical wire is securedly connected. The U-shaped connecting member includes two leg portions each having a tip portion, and each of the tip portions of the leg portions of the connecting member has an inclined edge for cutting or stripping the insulating cover when the connecting member is mounted to the wire connecting section.

Abstract: A low insertion-force electrical contact female terminal characterized in that a distal end portion of a flexible base plate portion is folded back to provide a resilient contact portion. A movable support member is mounted on the terminal body and moves in the longitudinal direction of the base plate portion to provide a force to the base plate portion. The flexible base plate portion flexes in response to the force and the integrally attached resilient contact portion also flexes to facilitate entry of a mating male electrical contact terminal. Once the female and male terminals have been connected, the movable support member can be moved again to provide a maximum force to maintain a strong connection.

Abstract: A connector comprising a housing having terminal insertion chambers in a jacket body, a terminal connecting shaft which is rotatably mounted between the terminal insertion chambers and so mounted through as to be operable from the outside of the jacket body, and electrically-conductive terminal connecting members disposed on the terminal connecting shaft in the terminal insertion chambers; and a plurality of connectors having terminals disposed in terminal holding chambers open to the outside. The terminals, in the terminal insertion chambers, face each other over the terminal connecting member when the connector is joined to the housing, and are connected to each other by rotating the terminal connecting shaft.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electrical connector, which comprises a male connector housing having a plurality of female terminals connected to wires, respectively, and a female connector housing, which is to be fitted to the male housing, having a plurality of male terminals connected to wires, respectively. Each of the female terminals has a first and a second tab receptacles, and each of the male terminal has a tab portion to be fitted to the first tab receptacle of the female terminals when the male and female housings are fitted together. The connector further comprises a joint terminal having at least one substantially U-shaped contact to be fitted to second tab receptacles of female terminals. The joint terminal is served to achieve electrical connection between some of the female terminals which are required to be electrically connected to each other.

Abstract: A multi-terminal connector comprising a male housing having a plurality of female terminals stored therein, a female housing having a plurality of male terminals stored therein and provided with an enlarged body for accomodating the male housing, a plurality of guide rails including at least two main guide rails and one supporting rail running in parallel therebetween disposed along the longer side of the enlarged body of the female housing, and also intersecting at right angles against the axis of the male terminals, a pair of sliders each slidably engageable with the guide rails, having a cam follower downwardly projecting from the lower surface thereof, a longitudinal slot formed between the above at least two of rails for permitting each of the cam followers to protrude therethrough, a pair of cam tracks arranged in the upper surface of the male housing and symmetrically extending in a diagonally rearward direction from lateral ends thereof to engage with the respective cam followers through the slot.

Abstract: The method of binding a flat wiring harness according to the present invention comprises the steps of:arranging a plurality of covered wires in parallel relationship in the same plane and bonding them in an easily separable manner thereby forming a flat wiring harness, separating the covered wires by a predetermined, identical number between adjacent covered wires over a predetermined length thereby dividing them into a plurality of small bundles, separating both end portions of all the covered wires in each of the small bundles between adjacent covered wires, and laying the plurality of small bundles one on top of the other and binding them up together in an easily separable manner.

Abstract: A connector including a female housing having a plurality of male terminals and a male housing having a plurality of female terminals. The female housing further includes at least two guide rails connected to each other and provided with an axis hole. A pair of sliders are each slidably engageable with the guide rails. Each slider has an upwardly projecting pin and a cam follower projecting downwardly. A pair of longitudinally aligned slots are formed between the two guide rails and receive the cam followers. A pair of cam tracks arranged in an outer surface of the male housing engage the cam followers which extend through the slots. A rotary actuator plate having two symmetrical grooves provided around a downwardly projecting pin is attached to the rail connecting portion by inserting the pin in the axis hole.

Abstract: A multipolar connector comprises male and female terminals disposed in recessed and projected housings and electrically connected to each other by fitting the recessed and projected housings to each other; guide rails disposed in one of the recessed and projected housings; a slider slidably attached to the guide rails and having a cam follower and moved along the guide rails so that the recessed and projected housings are moved towards and away from each other; the one of the recessed and projected housings having a space for allowing the movement of the cam follower; and a guide groove disposed in the other of the recessed and projected housings and engaged with the cam follower through the space.A multipolar connector for fitting a projected housing having a plurality of female terminals and a recessed housing having a plurality of male terminals to electrically connect the male and female terminals to each other.

Abstract: Disclosed is a watertight connector comprising a male connector housing in which a cavity for containing a packing therein is formed by the combination of an outer wall, an upstanding rear wall extending outwardly from the outer wall and a water-intrusion preventive wall extending forward from the end of the rear wall to surround the corresponding portion of the outer wall, and a mating female connector housing including a hollow columnar portion adapted to be inserted into the cavity to compress the packing thereby completing a watertight joint. In the connector, the packing is formed with an engaging projection extending from its end surface opposed by the rear wall of the male connector housing, and the rear wall is formed with a mating aperture to be engaged watertight by the engaging projection of the packing.