Abstract: It is aimed to provide a connector capable of suppressing the generation of an excessive stress in a connecting part of a flat cable and a terminal. A connector is provided with a flat cable (60) including a hole (64) serving as a receiving portion, a housing (10) including an installation surface (19) on which the flat cable (60) is arranged and a protrusion (21) projecting from the installation surface (19) and to be inserted into the hole (64), and a terminal (90) to be connected to a conductor (70) of the flat cable (60) and locked to the housing (10). The flat cable (60) includes an extra length portion (66) providing an extra length as compared to flat arrangement on the installation surface (19) in a part surrounding the protrusion (21) or a part arranged between the terminal (90) and the protrusion (21) in an assembled state.

Abstract: A terminal to be connected to a front end part of a flexible board including an insulating base film and a conductive path is provided with a terminal body including a sandwiching portion for sandwiching the flexible board and a tubular shell to be disposed outside sandwiching portion. The sandwiching portion includes a conductive contact portion for contacting the conductive path of the flexible board. The shell includes a pressurizing portion for pressing the sandwiching portion toward the flexible board, the pressurizing portion projecting inwardly of the shell. The shell includes a wide portion not formed with the pressurizing portion and a narrow portion narrower inside than the wide portion by being formed with the pressurizing portion. The narrow portion is located outside the sandwiching portion, whereby the conductive contact portion of the sandwiching portion contacts the conductive path.

Abstract: It is aimed to reduce a load to fixing portions of a flat cable and terminal fittings. A connector (A) includes a flat cable formed such that a plurality of conductors are arranged in parallel on a flexible insulating sheet, a plurality of terminal fittings held in a housing and individually fixed to front end parts of the plurality of conductors, and a reinforcing plate laminated on and integrated with a region of the insulating sheet including fixing portions of the conductors and the terminal fittings. The reinforcing plate is provided with hooking portions. The housing is formed with stoppers for restricting a rearward displacement of the flat cable with respect to the housing by being brought into contact with the hooking portions. A low-rigidity portion is formed in a region of the reinforcing plate rearward of the fixing portions and forward of the hooking portions.

Abstract: An arrangement structure of a wiring member includes: a wiring member including a plurality of wire-like transmission members parallelly arranged and a base keeping the plurality of wire-like transmission members in a state of being arranged side by side; and an arrangement target of the wiring member, wherein a slit extending along a longitudinal direction of the plurality of wire-like transmission members is formed in a portion of the base between the plurality of wire-like transmission members.

Abstract: A wiring member includes: at least one first cover wire; at least one second cover wire; and a first sheet to which at least the first cover wire is fixed, wherein a first hole is formed in the first sheet, and a connection part where a core wire of the first cover wire and a core wire of the second cover wire are connected is located in a region where the first hole is formed.

Abstract: A wiring member includes: a plurality of wire-like transmission members including a first wire-like transmission member and a second wire-like transmission member; and a plurality of sheets including a first sheet and a second sheet stacked on each other, wherein the first wire-like transmission member is fixed to the first sheet, the second wire-like transmission member is fixed to the second sheet, and at least one fixing position between the first sheet and the second sheet is partially provided along a longitudinal direction of the wire-like transmission members.

Abstract: Provided is a terminal-equipped flexible circuit board provided with a flexible circuit board that is flexible and a plurality of terminals. The flexible circuit board extends in a longitudinal direction, the flexible circuit board includes a plurality of conductive paths, the plurality of terminals each include a conductive path connection portion that is connected to a conductive path and a terminal connection portion that extends in an extending direction from the conductive path connection portion and is connected to a partner terminal, the plurality of terminals are arranged on the flexible circuit board in a state in which the longitudinal direction of the flexible circuit board intersects the extending direction of the plurality of terminals, and the plurality of terminals are arranged in a plurality of levels in a state in which the flexible circuit board is folded.

Abstract: Looseness of two housings are suppressed. A connector includes a lower housing and an upper housing. The lower housing is provided with a locking portion. The upper housing is provided with an elastic locking piece that is hooked on the locking portion. The elastic locking piece has a cantilever shape, and restricts relative movement of the lower housing and the upper housing in a separation direction, which is a direction opposite to a coupling direction. The lower housing is provided with a protruding piece portion that protrude outward in a left-right direction. The upper housing is provided with a protruding piece restriction portion that restricts movement of the protruding piece portion. The protruding piece restriction portion is provided with an inclined surface that is inclined in an assembly direction to reduce a movable range of the protruding piece portion in a separation direction.

Abstract: Provided is a terminal 12 connected to a front end section of a flexible substrate 11, wherein: the flexible substrate 11 has an insulating base film 14A, and a conduction path 13 formed on a front surface and/or a back surface of the insulating base film 14A; and the terminal 12 has a terminal main body 15 having a holding section for holding the flexible substrate 11, and a cylindrical shell disposed over the holding section. The holding section has a conductive contact part 34 that comes into contact with the conduction path 13 of the flexible substrate 11. The shell has a pressing section for pressing the holding section to the flexible substrate 11. The pressing section projects into the shell. The shell has a wide section 16A where the pressing section is not formed and a narrow section 16B having a narrower interior than the wide section 16A due to the pressing section being formed.

Abstract: A male connector 11 provided with a plurality of male terminals 16 to be connected to a plurality of female terminals 14 provided in a female connector 12 includes a receptacle 23 into which the female connector 12 is fit, and a movable member 38 disposed in the receptacle 23 and including an engaging portion 42 to be engaged with the female connector 12. The movable member 38 includes a releasing member 47 for releasing a short circuit by contacting a shorting terminal 28 provided for the plurality of male terminals 16 or the plurality of female terminals 14 to short-circuit the plurality of male terminals 16 or the plurality of female terminals 14.

Abstract: A connector is provided with a housing, a plurality of first terminal fittings, and a plurality of second terminal fittings. The terminal fittings are press-fitted from a rear side of press-fit holes of the housing and arranged to be parallel in a left-right direction. A first projecting part is formed on both left and right edge parts of each of the first terminal fittings, and a second projecting part is formed on both left and right edge parts of each of the second terminal fittings. Each of the projecting parts has a shape where only a portion of the terminal fitting in a length direction projects in the left-right direction, and a pressing surface that is pressed by a jig during press-fitting is formed. The projecting parts of adjacent terminal fittings are arranged such that formation positions thereof are not aligned in the front-rear direction.

Abstract: There is provided a method for filling a silencer with glass fiber, for filling an internal space between a case and an inner pipe with glass fiber in a silencer in which a porous inner pipe penetrates through a pair of through holes in the case, the method including shifting the inner pipe in a penetrating direction from a normal position where the inner pipe is secured to the case, inserting a nozzle auxiliary portion into an interior of the case from a through hole opened by the inner pipe being shifted, supplying glass fiber into the interior of the case from a nozzle of a glass fiber supply machine connected to the nozzle auxiliary portion, and filling the internal space between the case and the inner pipe with glass fiber.

Abstract: It is aimed to reduce a load to fixing portions of a flat cable and terminal fittings. A connector (A) includes a flat cable formed such that a plurality of conductors are arranged in parallel on a flexible insulating sheet, a plurality of terminal fittings held in a housing and individually fixed to front end parts of the plurality of conductors, and a reinforcing plate laminated on and integrated with a region of the insulating sheet including fixing portions of the conductors and the terminal fittings. The reinforcing plate is provided with hooking portions. The housing is formed with stoppers for restricting a rearward displacement of the flat cable with respect to the housing by being brought into contact with the hooking portions. A low-rigidity portion is formed in a region of the reinforcing plate rearward of the fixing portions and forward of the hooking portions.

Abstract: Provided is a connector including: at least one plate-like housing body; a plurality of groove-like terminal housing chambers each opened in an upper surface of the housing body and parallelly arranged; a plurality of connection terminals provided at ends of a plurality of electrical wirings and housed and disposed in the terminal housing chambers, respectively; an electrical wiring support part supporting the plurality of electrical wirings extending from a back end side opening part of the terminal housing chambers; a sheet-like reinforced member which is placed on an upper surface of the electrical wiring support part and the plurality of electrical wirings are fixed to in a state of parallelly arranged; and a cover part overlapping with the upper surface of the housing body to cover the terminal housing chambers and sandwiching the sheet-like reinforced member between the cover part and the electrical wiring support part.

Abstract: It is aimed to prevent the damage of sealing holes. A connector includes terminal fittings (30) to be connected to front end parts of wires (39), a housing (10), and a one-piece rubber plug (40) mounted in a rear end part of the housing (10). Accommodation chambers (15) for allowing insertion of the terminal fittings (30) from front of the housing (10) are formed in the housing (10). The one-piece rubber plug (40) includes sealing holes (41). The wires (39) not connected to the terminal fittings (30) are passable through the accommodation chambers (15) and the sealing holes (41).

Abstract: A joint connector 10 is provided with a joint terminal 12, and a housing 13 configured to accommodate the joint terminal 12. The joint terminal 12 includes a plurality of branch portions 16, a plurality of wire connecting portions 19 respectively continuous with the plurality of branch portions 16 and to be connected to wires 11, and a coupling portion 15 electrically connecting the plurality of branch portions 16 by coupling the plurality of branch portions 16. The wire connecting portion 19 includes a connecting piece having a contact surface configured to contact the wire 11 and a pressing portion 17 configured to press the connecting piece against the wire 11 by coming into contact with the connecting piece.

Abstract: A connector includes a terminal that is to be contacted with a conductive member of a wire, a housing in which the terminal is arranged, and a holding member that is fit in the housing and in contact with the terminal to hold a position of the terminal. At least one of the terminal and the housing includes a pressing portion that presses the conductive member in a direction such that the conductive member comes in contact with the terminal.

Abstract: Provided is a connector that can prevent excessive stress from arising at a connecting site between a flat cable and a terminal. The connector is provided with a flat cable (60) that has a hole (64) serving as a receiving section, a housing (10) that has an installation surface (19) where the flat cable (60) is arranged and a projecting section (21) projecting out from the installation surface (19) and is inserted into the hole (64), and a terminal (90) that is connected to a conductor section (70) of the flat cable (60) and is locked onto the housing (10). In an assembled state, the flat cable (60) has, at a portion enclosing the projecting section (21) or a portion arranged between the terminal (90) and the projecting section (21), an excess length section (66) that is extra long as compared to a case of having been disposed along the installation surface (19) of the housing (10).

Abstract: A wiring member includes a sheet material and a wire-like transmission member extending in a plane direction of the sheet material and fixed to the sheet material by a contact area direct fixation at intervals in three or more positions in a longitudinal direction of the wire-like transmission member. When an interval between two contact area direct fixation positions continuous in a longitudinal direction of the wire-like transmission member in contact area direct fixation positions of the sheet material and the wire-like transmission member is a fixation interval, the wiring member includes portions that differ in the fixation interval.

Abstract: There is provided a method for filling a silencer with glass fiber, for filling an internal space between a case and an inner pipe with glass fiber in a silencer in which a porous inner pipe penetrates through a pair of through holes in the case, the method including shifting the inner pipe in a penetrating direction from a normal position where the inner pipe is secured to the case, inserting a nozzle auxiliary portion into an interior of the case from a through hole opened by the inner pipe being shifted, supplying glass fiber into the interior of the case from a nozzle of a glass fiber supply machine connected to the nozzle auxiliary portion, and filling the internal space between the case and the inner pipe with glass fiber.