Abstract: A method of eliminating difficulties in holding inserts at the time of molding, and for ensuring the inserts at predetermined positions is provided. According to this method, the edges of the inserts are alternately arranged in a stair-like state. These edges are held by a stair-like holding portion formed by an upper metal mold and a slide metal mold, and/or a lower metal mold and another slide metal mold, so that they can be secured at predetermined positions. Thereafter, resin is injected into the cavity formed inside the metal molds.

Abstract: A combined-type connector consists of a hood having at the front half a first connector-fitting chamber and at the rear half a side opening in a direction perpendicular to a connector-fitting direction; and a connector with a connector-fitting section having a second connector-fitting chamber formed therein. The connector-fitting section of the connector is inserted through the side opening into combination with the hood, moved in the direction perpendicular to the connector-fitting direction in which the connector is fitted with a mating connector. The hood and the connector can be easily combined and disassembled, though not disassembled under a force acting in the detaching direction of the connector from the mating connector.

Abstract: A contact terminal includes an electrically conductive plate including a base plate; an electrical contact section, engageable with another terminal, formed at a front end portion of the base plate; a wire clamping section, for clamping a wire thereto, formed at a rear end portion of the base plate; an electrically conductive section formed between the electrical contact section and the wire clamping section, the electrically conductive section including first and second side walls and a bottom wall which is a part of the base plate and is formed between the first and second side walls, the first and second side walls which have first and second blades extending inwardly to confront each other so as to define a slot therebetween; and a step portion formed in the base plate between the electrical contact section and the wire clamping section so that a section of the base plate in the step portion in the front-to-rear direction is non-linear.

Abstract: A terminal includes a stabilizer with an embossing portion. A connector housing includes a terminal accommodating chamber. On an inner wall of the terminal accommodating chamber, there is provided a stabilizer inserting groove into which the stabilizer is inserted. In the stabilizer inserting groove, there is provided an embossing engaging portion with which the embossing portion is engaged when the terminal is inserted into the terminal accommodating chamber.

Abstract: Upper and lower connector housings are respectively formed substantially in a box shape having upper and lower walls. The upper and lower connector housings are connected to each other by overlapping an upper wall of the lower connector housing and a lower wall of the upper connector housing in an opposing state. Engaging holes are respectively formed on the lower wall of the upper connector housing and the upper wall of the lower connector housing. The engaging hole of the upper connector housing is closed by the upper wall of the lower connector housing. The engaging hole of the lower connector housing is closed by the lower wall of the upper connector housing. Accordingly, the terminal can be securely prevented from coming out from the terminal receiving chamber and the adjacent terminals can be securely prevented from being shorted.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing body having terminals arranged thereon, a retaining portion formed at a front side of the housing body, a cover member attachable to the housing body, and an engagement portion formed at a wall of the cover member. In the connector, when the cover member is attached to the housing body, the retaining portion is engaged with the engagement portion, thereby aligning center axes of the housing body and the cover member with each other. The engagement portion of the cover member is an engagement hole of a circular shape, and the retaining portion of the housing body is a semi-spherical projection.

Abstract: A press-connecting connector includes a plurality of housings each having a bottom wall and a plurality of partition walls extending substantially perpendicularly from the bottom wall, in which the housings are combinable together in such a manner that the partition walls of one of any two adjacent housings are opposed respectively to the partition walls of the other housing so as to form terminal receiving chambers respectively receivable press-connecting terminals. First opposing end portions are formed on the partition walls of the one housing, and second opposing end portions formed on the partition walls of the other housing. The first opposing end portions may be abutted respectively to the second opposing end portions in an intimately-contacted condition when the housings are combined together. Also, the first and second opposing end portions may be combined together so formed as to be engaged with each other when the housings are combined together.

Abstract: A crimping terminal includes an electrically conductive plate including: an electrical contact section engageable with another terminal; a wire clamping section for clamping a wire thereto; an insulation displacement conductive section formed to locate between the electrical contact section and the wire clamping section, the insulation displacement conductive section having a bottom wall, a first side wall and a second side wall, the first and second side walls which have first and second insulation displacement blades extending inwardly to confront each other so as to define a insulation displacement slot therebetween; and a coupling section, which is substantially U-shaped in cross-section, having a bottom wall, a first side wall and a second side wall, the coupling section being formed in at least one of the portions between the insulation displacement conductive section and the wire clamping section and between the insulation displacement conductive section and the electrical contact section, the coupling

Abstract: There is disclosed a crimping connector in which the efficiency of the operation is enhanced by simplifying a process of crimping sheathed wires. Also the efficiency of arrangement of a terminal assembly in a mating connector is enhanced. Each of housings 10 and 11 includes an upwardly-open wire connecting portion 2 and a terminal connecting portion 3 of a closed cross-sectional shape communicating with the wire connecting portion 2, and the housings 10 and 11 are integrally connected together through hinges 4 so that the wire connecting portions 2 of the housings, as well as the terminal connecting portions 3 thereof, can be stacked one upon another vertically in the same position and the same direction, and also crimping terminals 30 in the stacked housings 10 and 11 are arranged vertically in the forward direction.

Abstract: An insulation piercing terminal is so designed that a piece of thin metal plate is pressed in such a manner that an insulation piercing plate having a pair of right and left insulation piercing blades each pair of which defines an insulation piercing slot, is bent raised against a belt-shaped bottom plate which is extended in a front-to-rear direction, and the pair of insulation piercing blades are located near the bending lines. In the insulation piercing terminal, reinforcing walls are provided at both ends of each of the bending lines to prevent the insulation piercing blades from being displaced when the wire is pushed therein.

Abstract: A press-connecting joint connector comprises a terminal having a plurality of electrically connected press-connecting blades for electrically connecting a plurality of sheathed wires pressed into the press-connecting blades, a connector body for supporting the terminal therein, the connector body having at least one side wall, a cover, a wire-pressing portion formed on the cover for pressing the wires into the press-connecting blades when the cover is engaged with the connector body, and a notched portion formed in at least one longitudinal end of the at least one side wall of the connector body, wherein at least one of the plurality of wires, when bent, is received by and held against the notched portion to prevent the cover from being disengaged from the connector body by an external force acting on the at least one of the plurality of wires.

Abstract: A press-connecting terminal including a contact portion provided on one side of a bottom wall so as to be connected to a partner terminal, a caulking portion provided on the other side of the bottom wall for caulking an electric wire, and a press-connecting portion provided between the contact portion and the caulking portion so that an end of the electric wire is press-connected to the press-connecting portion.

Abstract: A connector with a double retaining mechanism which allows a cover member closing operation to be performed reliably as well as easily without providing a hinge portion, and allows a connecting terminal accommodated in a terminal accommodating chamber to be doubly retained reliably by a cover member. A connector with a double retaining mechanism allows a female terminal to be unreleasably retained by a release preventing lance with the female terminal inserted into a terminal accommodating chamber formed in a housing. When a cover member that covers an opening in the rear of the terminal accommodating chamber closes a rear portion of the housing, coupling portions arranged on a base end portion of the cover member are cut off while twisted.

Abstract: A connector conduction tester includes a conduction testing section and a connector holding section which are arranged on a stand frame and an operating section for moving the conducting testing section towards the connector holding section, in which a conduction testing operation is carried out with testing pins of the conduction testing section abutted against terminals in a connector. In the tester, the stand frame has a spacer supplying hole which is confronted with a spacer inserting hole formed in a connector set in the connector holding section, and spacer pushing device located below the spacer supplying hole.

Abstract: A connector with a rear holder in which connector terminals can be positively mounted in predetermined positions in a connector housing simultaneously when the rear holder is attached to the connector housing. In the connector with the rear holder, a press member is formed on a reverse surface of a rear holder upper plate through hinges, and when the rear holder upper plate is pressed down from an upper side, the press member is pivotally moved toward a direction of insertion of the connector terminals. As a result, the connector terminals can be forced in the insertion direction, and can be retained in the predetermined positions in terminal receiving chambers.

Abstract: A method of producing a press-connecting connector, in which even if the insert molding is effected by pouring a non-electrically conductive material while supporting press-connecting terminals by a fixing pin within a mold, an exposed portion, resulting from the trace of the fixing pin, is covered with the non-electrically conductive material. In the press-connecting connector, press-connecting terminals for press-connecting sheathed wires are positioned by a fixing pin provided in a mold, and are insert-molded in a non-electrically conductive material. An exposed portion, formed by the fixing pin at the bottom of the press-connecting terminals, is closed by pressing and fusing a plurality of hole closure pieces, molded at the same time, together. Therefore, the efficiency of the operation is enhanced, and also the production cost can be reduced, and the highly-reliable press-connecting connector can be obtained.

Abstract: A waterproof connector 1 of the invention includes a housing body 2 having a plurality of terminal receiving chambers 4 for respectively receiving a plurality of crimp-style terminals 5 each clamped to a wire W, a cover 3 covering the housing body 2 from a front side thereof, a mat seal 6 of an elastic material which is provided between the housing body 2 and the cover 3, and has a plurality of wire seal holes 7, and a rear holder 10 which is fitted on the mat seal 6 from a rear side thereof, and is engaged with the cover 3.

Abstract: A press-connecting joint connector in which press-connecting blades, formed on a terminal, can be flexed in a generally equal amount, and the pitch of wires is reduced to thereby achieve a small-size design of the connector. A plurality of press-connecting blades (11) and (12), formed on a terminal (9) held by a connector body (2), are arranged in a staggered manner. Inner end portions (13) and (14) of the press-connecting blades (11) and (12) are disposed in a common plane, and the inner end portions (13) and (14) are held by intermediate walls (8) formed integrally on the connector body. A thickness of the intermediate wall is substantially equal to a width of the inner end portions (13) and (14). The distance between a side wall (7) of the connector body and the intermediate wall (8) is substantially equal to an outer diameter of the sheathed wire. Outer end portions of the press-connecting blades are embedded in the opposite side walls of the connector body, respectively.

Abstract: A terminal retaining structure for a doubly retainable electrical connector comprises a terminal retaining member 3 having overhang wall portions 6a, 6b and terminal retaining projecting plates 7a, 7b projecting forward from the overhang wall portions 6a, 6b for contacting projecting pieces 32 of a terminal 23; and a connector housing 1 having a bottom wall 17 with an opening 13 for inserting terminal retaining member 3 in bottom wall 13 and a flexible retaining lance 20, for retaining terminal 23, having a pair of contact stepped portions 27 formed on opposite side portions corresponding to the pair of terminal retaining projecting plates 7a, 7b for contacting the projecting pieces of terminal 23.

Abstract: A rear holder integral-type connector is constituted by a hollow rectangular housing body made from resin, and rear holders coupled integrally with the upper and lower walls of the housing body through displaceable hinges respectively. The rear holders are bent, at a position displaced from the fore side of the upper wall of the housing body to the rear side slightly, toward the fore side with the displaceable hinges as pivotal axes. The housing body and the rear holders which are disposed back to back, are temporarily fixed by temporary fixation hinges. These temporary fixation hinges are formed integrally with the housing body and the rear holders. Locking side pieces for locking are provided at the both side ends of the rear holders, and locking grooves are provided at a rear end portion of the housing body.