Abstract: A connector includes a first connector and a second connector which are fitted to each other to be electrically connected. One of the first and second connectors is provided with shutters each of which is pivotally moved outwardly upon application of an external force to a front surface portion of the respective shutters. The other connector is provided with front end portions, and during the time when the two connectors are fitted together, each of the front end portions urges the front surface portion of the associated shutter.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a feeding connector half and a receiving connector half, wherein the feeding connector half comprising: a case; a connector main body slidably accommodated in a front half portion of the case for accommodating a plurality of terminals; a handle attached to a rear half portion of the case; a slider for causing the connector main body in the case to slide; a rotatable lever of which intermediate portion is supported in the case, a working portion of the lever rotatably attached to the handle and an operating portion of the lever projecting out of the case; a locking means for locking the lever at a portion where the connector main body is locked to a connector main body of the receiving connector half due to a rotation of the rotatable lever; and a means for unlocking the lever.

Abstract: Terminals for a low-cost connector apparatus, and the connector apparatus using the terminals, are provided. Each of the connection portions of the terminals for connecting wiring materials is formed by cutting an electrically conductive pipe material into a specific length and then crimping flat one end thereof. The uncrimped end retains its cylindrical shape, and is formed into a fit-engagement portion into which another terminal is inserted to make current conduction possible. The connector apparatus comprises a first base member having a main portion and a stepped portion, a side wall of the main portion being substantially perpendicular to a top surface of the stepped portion. A second base member, matable with the said first base member, is also provided. Burial holes are provided in the first base member near the stepped portion, and the inventive terminals are disposed therein.

Abstract: A shielded connector is so designed that its inner housing can be used independently, and the core wires of a shielded cable can be directly connected to the inner housing which has been shielded. A female inner connector and a male inner connector, in which terminals are accommodated respectively, are so designed as to be used independently. A female outer housing which is electrically conductive and connected to the shielding braid of a shielded cable is detachably preset over the female inner connector. A male outer housing which is electrically conductive and is connected to the shielding braid of a shielded cable is detachably preset over the male inner connector so that the male outer housing is fixedly coupled to the female outer housing through electrically conductive fixing means with the former electrically connected to the latter.

Abstract: A shield wire, having a shield mesh whose front end portion is folded back, is inserted into a shield contact member from a rear side thereof, so that the shield mesh is fitted in a wire fixing portion, and is fixed thereto at a spiral groove portion. Then, a terminal is fixedly secured to a front end of the shield wire, and the terminal is inserted into an electrically-conductive, hollow cylindrical shell, mounted within a housing, through an open, exposed rear end of the shell, so that a shell contact portion of the shield contact member is held against the rear end, and in this condition the shield wire is fixed to the housing.

Abstract: In a terminal in which a contact plate portion of a contact spring piece is projected through an opening of a bottom plate portion and a stop plate at the tip end of a rear plate portion bent from the contact plate portion is to butt against the opening edge of the bottom plate portion, curved parts are formed in a range extending from the contact plate portion to the rear plate portion. The curved parts have an arcuate section taken along a width direction of the spring piece.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to quickly supply inexpensive large current terminals without entailing complicated metal-working process and labor. Further, another object thereof is to provide methods of metal-working such terminals. A large current male terminal is constructed by forming a hollow cylindrical electric contact part on one end of a conductive pipe, a hollow cylindrical wire crimping part on the other end thereof, and a collar between the electric contact part and the wire crimping part. The electric contact part has a substantially conical nose and is formed by squeezing one end of the conductive pipe in such a manner that the diameter of the one end is gradually reduced frontward. The wire crimping part has such an inner diameter as to allow a wire to be inserted thereinto. The collar has a diameter larger than the other parts.

Abstract: The feeder connector is designed to prevent incomplete engagement of the feeding and receiving side connectors and to facilitate connection work when charging an electric car. The feeder connector comprises a feeding side connector A on the power supply apparatus side and a receiving side connector B on the car body side. The feeding side connector A has a connector body 1, a protective case 2 and a lock lever 12. The protective case 2 consists of a main case 2A made up of a cylinder portion 3, a half-cylinder portion 4 and a trough portion 5, all formed integral, and a subcase 2B. The connector body 1 is formed integral with the cylinder portion 3 of the main case 2A through a flange 19 formed along the periphery of the body. An opening 11 is formed ranging from the cylinder portion 3 of the main case 2A to the subcase 2B. In this opening 11, a lock lever 12 for the receiving side connector B is rotatably provided.

Abstract: An electro-magnetically shielded connector comprises a connector body including at least two housings; an electrically conductive layer formed on a surface of one of the two housings in such a manner that the electrically conductive layer covers a surface of the one housing, and when the two housings are combined with each other, at least a part of the electrically conductive layer on an inner surface of the one housing is exposed; and main electrically connecting device for electrically connecting the electrically conductive layer of the connector body and a shield of a shielded cable to seal an inside of the connector body.

Abstract: A feeding connector used for charging an automobile in which incomplete connection between a feeding connector half and a receiving connector half is prevented and the connection work of both connector halves can be easily carried out with small insertion force.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrical connector used for charging an automobile in which an incomplete connection between a feeding connector half and a receiving connector half is prevented and the work of connecting both connector halves can be easily carried out with a small insertion force.

Abstract: An embracing portion is formed on a fusible body of metal, and a chip of low-melting metal is embraced by this embracing portion, and a constricted portion of a small cross-sectional area is formed at the fusible body, and a radiating plate is provided in the vicinity of the constricted portion.

Abstract: An electro-magnetically shielded connector comprises a connector body including at least two housings; an electrically conductive layer formed on a surface of one of the two housings in such a manner that the electrically conductive layer covers a surface of the one housing, and when the two housings are combined with each other, at least a part of the electrically conductive layer on an inner surface of the one housing is exposed; and main electrically connecting device for electrically connecting the electrically conductive layer of the connector body and a shield of a shielded cable to seal an inside of the connector body.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system which can easily connect a shielding wire and a terminal in a shielding connector without damaging an internal sheath of the shielding wire and causing contact between a shielding layer and core wires of the shielding wire. The system has a shielding layer pressing member having an inner diameter substantially the same as the outer diameter of the internal sheath of the shielding wire, and shielding tube 7. The shielding layer pressing member is fitted to the terminal of the shielding layer exposed by stripping a terminal portion of the external sheath of the shielding wire, and is slid toward the remaining portion of the external sheath to contract the shielding layer. The shielding tube is inserted between the internal sheath and the external sheath with the contracted portion of the shielding layer therebetween and is fixed by caulking from the outside thereof.

Abstract: The present invention is a method of manufacturing a screw connector by an injection metal mold. The screw connector includes a connector main body and a nut embedded in the connector main body. An axis of the nut extends in a forward and backward direction of the connector main body. The screw connector further includes a first opening located on a front side of the nut to be inserted by a bolt of a mating connector and a first columnar space located on a rear side of the nut to receive a distal end portion of the bolt. The method includes the three steps. The first step is setting said metal mold in such a state that said nut is held by a front projection portion and a rear projection portion. This front projection portion projects rearwardly and having a small diameter portion and a portion having larger diameter than said small diameter portion. This rear projection portion projects forwardly to be in contact with a rear end face of said nut. The second step is injecting a melted resin in said metal mold.

Abstract: In a connector device, a female connector is fixedly mounted on a first base body, and a male connector 10 is mounted on a second base body which is swingable about a rotating axis with respect to the first base body, in such a manner that the male connector is loosely fitted in a guide, being displaceable in a direction perpendicular to the rotating axis, and is kept urged towards the rotating axis by urging means. Hence, the guide member of the male connector is engaged with a guide hole of the female connector while abutting against the wall surface, on the side of the rotating shaft, of the guide hole, which makes it possible to decrease the dimension L1 of the guide hole in the direction perpendicular to the rotating axis. That is, the connector device can be miniaturized.