Junction Box With Busbar For Plug-socket Type Interconnection With Receptacle Patents (Class 439/949)
  • Patent number: 6264510
    Abstract: A bus bar structure includes: a bus bar stored in an electric junction box; and a tab terminal electrically connected to a pattern portion of the bus bar. The tab terminal is separately formed with the bus bar. The pattern portion is welded with the tab terminal by using a laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignees: Harness System Technologies Research Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Onizuka, Atsuhiko Fujii, Yoshifumi Saka, Atsuhiro Togawa
  • Patent number: 6244877
    Abstract: There is provided an electric connection box having excellent connection reliability and ease of assembly. The electric connection box is provided with a connector housing, a printed circuit board, and a connection block formed as a separate member from the connector housing and printed circuit board. The connection block is configured to hold the connection terminals by partially embedding a plurality of connection terminals in an insulator. The insulator is placed on the printed circuit board. Second ends of each of the connection terminal projecting from the insulator are soldered to conductors on the printed circuit board. First ends of each connection terminal are loosely inserted in through-holes in the connector housing to project into the connection housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiro Asao
  • Patent number: 6242698
    Abstract: A cable management system includes an adapter plate disposed between a panel and a cabling component, such as a wiring block or wiring trough. The adapter plate includes a first plurality of fasteners and a first plurality of alignment pins extending orthogonally from a first surface, and second plurality of fasteners and a second plurality of alignment pins extending orthogonally from a second surface. The first plurality of fasteners engage tabs formed on the panel and the second plurality of fasteners engage features formed on the cabling component. The first plurality of alignment pins are disposed to engage alignment apertures formed in the panel. The second plurality of alignment pins are disposed to engage alignment apertures formed in the cabling component. The adapter plate can include an abutment portion disposed to abut the panel and cooperate with the first plurality of fasteners to position the adapter plate relative to the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Avaya Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Frank Phillips Baker, III, Golam Mabud Choudhury, Theodore Alan Conorich, Lyndon Dee Ensz, Wayne Scott Filus, William John Ivan, John Anthony Rutkowski
  • Patent number: 6238221
    Abstract: To provide a circuit connection structure for a junction block which can improve the reliability in circuit connection while trying to reduce a space needed for circuit connection. A wiring pattern 11 is provided on a printed-wiring board 10, and electronic components 12 are mounted on the printed-wiring circuit board 10. A slit 13 is formed in a substrate main body 10a of the printed-wiring board 10, and a land portion 14 is provided on each side of the slit 13. The land portion 14 is connected to the wiring pattern 11. A single-core wire 15 is disposed so as to extend between the land portions 14 and is soldered thereat. One end portion of a pressure connecting terminal 18 is pressure connected to a single-core wire 17 within a junction block, while the other end portion of the pressure connecting terminal 18 is bite connected to the single-core wire 17 through the slit 13.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignees: Harness System Technologies Research, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keizo Ikeda, Yoshihiro Isshiki
  • Patent number: 6227913
    Abstract: A power distribution block assembly that includes an insulative body, at least one common electrically-conductive power bus member, a plurality of connector elements, and a sealed cover is disclosed. A U-shaped bus member includes a pluarlity of terminal blades extending therefrom, and plurality of separate connector elements connect the terminal blades to input side terminals of removable circuit elements, such as fuse elements or circuit breakers. Load side terminals of the fuse elements are received in load side connectors housed in passages in the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Ruel Emmett Davis, Matthew Alan Joiner
  • Patent number: 6224426
    Abstract: An electrical junction box for electrically connecting a plurality of cables through a fusible link, comprises a body, an inserting section into which the fusible link is insertable, and fixing sections to which the cables can be fixed. In the electrical junction box, the inserting section and the fixing sections are so arranged on the body that the inserting section and the fixing sections face in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Nobutaka Kaneko
  • Patent number: 6224397
    Abstract: Connection terminals 25 extending from bus bars 23 are projected from an upper case 21. A circuit board 24a closest to the upper case 21 is formed integrally with terminal supports 32 supporting the connection terminals 25 perpendicularly on the circuit board 24a. Insertion openings 35 are formed at the bottom of connector mounting openings 27 through which the connection terminals 25 project. The terminal supports 32 supporting the connection terminals 25 are inserted through the insertion openings 35. The terminal supports 32 and the insertion openings 35 are disposed so that, when an inner side surface of the upper case 21 abuts the upper surface of a circuit unit 20 and the two are assembled with proper alignment, upper end surfaces 32a of the terminal supports 32 are coplanar with a bottom surface 27a on which are disposed the insertion openings 35, thereby allowing for visual confirmation of proper alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6220875
    Abstract: An electrical connection box 1 containing at least one generally planar base insulative plate 4 having two flat surfaces. There is at least one busbar 5 on or adjacent the first surface which is capable of electrical contact with a plurality of insulated wires 6. The busbar has one or more pressure connection sections 10 which include a pair of blades 11 which cut through the insulation on the wires 6 and make electrical contact therewith. The insulated wires are straight, parallel to each other, and are located in the wire concentration section 15 which is on or adjacent the second surface of the base insulative plate 4. The wire concentration section 15 and the pressure connection section 10 are in register with each other and openings 17 are provided in the base insulative plate through which the blades 11 can project.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Kawakita
  • Patent number: 6195263
    Abstract: In an electronic control unit, a pad portion thereof is firmly fixed to a terminal plate and vibration of the terminal plate under supersonic vibration is prevented so as to secure the bonding strength between the terminal plate and the wire during wire bonding. One lead portion of each terminal plate is connected to a pin of the connector and another lead portion is wire bonded to the terminal of the circuit substrate. The leads have bent portions extending from an exposed surface to be bonded in opposite directions to be embedded in the pad portion of the case such that the lead portion of the terminal plate is firmly fixed to the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Aoike, Naotaka Murakami, Hiroki Takata, Osamu Yamato
  • Patent number: 6179628
    Abstract: An electric connection box of the present invention comprises an upper case, a lower case fitting with the upper case, a connector housing connecting with a connector from the outside, one or a plurality of bus-bars each arranged sandwiched between the upper case and the lower case and having a terminal portion comprised of a plurality of terminal pieces positioned arranged in parallel inside the connector housing and a bus-bar body integrally formed with the terminal portion, and an insulator provided at least between the plurality of terminal pieces to connect and secure the terminal pieces to each other, by which insulator the narrow width terminal pieces are connected with each other and disturbance of the pitch or deformation is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Hasegawa, Mitsuo Tanaka, Tadashi Ikezawa
  • Patent number: 6126457
    Abstract: A routed wire electrical center adapter for coupling electrical components having varying terminal footprints with standard electrical center components having a standard terminal footprint through an adapter element within the electrical center including application specific electrical elements for receiving, on a first element end, electrical terminals of a first footprint, and for receiving, on a second element end opposing the first element end, electrical terminals of a second footprint. The first footprint is selected from a wide range of footprints as specified in an application. The second footprint is a standard footprint across a broad range of electrical center applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Randall Kent Smith, Eric Owen Bartlett, Michael Anthony DeAngelis
  • Patent number: 6083012
    Abstract: A rear combination lamp comprises a lamp body (2) including socket mounting portions (3) and a lens portion (6), and sockets (20). Lamps are respectively attached to the sockets. Each of the socket mounting portions has a hollow construction of a generally truncated pyramid-shaped. Conductors (4, 11) are mounted on rear end portions of the socket mounting portions to form a predetermined circuit. Connection terminals (23) each having a conductor contact portion (24) are arranged within the sockets. The respective conductor contact portions project from flanges (22) or socket bodies (21) of the sockets so as to contact the respective conductors. When the respective sockets are mounted in the respective socket mounting portions, the respective conductors can be electrically connected to the respective lamps through the conductor contact portions of the connection terminals. The socket mounting portions may include ribs (10), fixing ribs (7) and fixing holes (9) for installing the conductors (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Suzuki, Takayoshi Endo, Sakai Yagi
  • Patent number: 6050856
    Abstract: An electrical junction box having a screw-tightening type fusible link. The electrical junction box includes a screw-tightening type fusible link having at least one pair of terminals, a first electrical junction box having a housing for mounting the screw-tightening type fusible link and a recess portion which is adjacent to the housing for mounting the screw-tightening type fusible link, a second electrical junction box which can be mounted in the recess portion of the first electrical junction box, at least one wire harness in which one end of the wire harness is securely tightened to the terminal of screw-tightening type fusible link by a bolt, and an operation space for tightening where the bolt, the operation space is defined so as to be identical with the recess portion of the first electrical junction box before the second electrical junction box is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Sugiura
  • Patent number: 6030259
    Abstract: A bus bar wiring board has electric contact portions 11a, 11b projected in a tab terminal 11 perpendicularly folded and is constructed such that the electric contact portions 11a, 11b projected in the tab terminal 11 and a folded portion 11d of the tab terminal 11 do not overlap each other on a straight line perpendicular to the folded portion 11d. To achieve this construction, an approximately central portion 11c of the tab terminal 11 constituting the folded portion is punched and both sides of the punched portion 11c are set to the folded portion 11d of the tab terminal 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Toshimasa Yoshigi
  • Patent number: 6022247
    Abstract: An electric wiring block composed of a block main body and various cassette blocks. The block main body includes a plurality of cassette receiving chambers which are identical in shape with each other and into which the cassette blocks are received, and, on the respective inner peripheral walls of the cassette receiving chambers, securing ribs are respectively provided. Also, on the outer peripheral wall of the block main body, external securing ribs for option cassettes are provided, while the external securing ribs are identical in shape with the securing ribs. Further, on the outside portions of the cassette blocks, which are identical in shape with each other and are used in common with different kinds of electric parts, lock claws are provided for inserting the cassette blocks into the cassette receiving chambers, and option lock claws are provided for fixing the cassette blocks to the outside portion of the block main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Akiyama, Hidetoshi Sato, Takeshi Ohba, Kazuaki Yokoyama, Tsutomu Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 6015302
    Abstract: A Power Distribution Center (PDC) for a motor vehicle distributes power through relays and fuses to connectors for distribution of power throughout the motor vehicle. The PDC includes a housing/connector plate, a printed circuit board, a leadframe assembly, an insulator, a B+ buss bar, an alignment plate and a cover. The PDC utilizes the B+ Buss bar assembly for receiving power into the PDC. The leadframe assembly is utilized to distribute power within the PDC to particular circuits. The printed circuit board is employed to distribute power and signals within the PDC. Terminal clips are used to interconnect between the PDC and associated relays and fuses. The PDC is configured to allow simple addition of electronic modules by providing an interface as part of the PDC, thereby allowing modules to be added to the network without requiring a separate wiring harness for each module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Thomas & Betts International, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence D. Butts, Charles L. Robinson, Douglas Simpson, Joseph L. Dery
  • Patent number: 6010375
    Abstract: A connection construction is provided to connect electrical connection paths of a battery and an electrical connection box using a connection plate. The connection construction for connects a battery post 11a projecting from the upper surface of a battery 11 and a power input portion of an electrical connection box 12 placed adjacent to the battery. A coupling portion 12c which extends along the upper surface of the battery 11 and projects from a side wall of the electrical connection box 12. A busbar 14 is connected with an internal circuit of electrical connection box 12 and extends into the coupling portion 12c. An end of the busbar 14 and a battery terminal 17 mounted on the battery post 1a are fixedly fastened by bolts via a connection plate 16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiji Higuchi
  • Patent number: 6010341
    Abstract: An electrical connection unit having a junction block and a plurality of connectors mounted thereon. The junction block carries a plurality of electrical elements, also mounted thereon and in electrical contact with the elements. There is a plurality of wire harnesses extending from the connectors and the side walls of either the junction block or a main box are extended beyond the connectors in a direction away from the elements. The remote edges of the side walls bear against the vehicle body and provide a space between the edges and the connectors. This construction provides a space through which the wire harnesses can be passed and a simple means of waterproofing without the necessity of a bottom cover. In addition, the pull-out section is composed of two semi-cylinders, which are hinged to each other so that the wire harnesses can be placed therein and one of the semi-cylinders rotated about the hinge, closed, and latched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 6007350
    Abstract: A junction box is provided to make any desired part mountable on a part mount portion of the junction box without specializing it for a particular part. There are provided parts, such as an integrated fuse 10, having tabs projecting at equal intervals from a casing 11, a wire connecting connector 30, a diode, and a short-circuiting pin assembly 40. A common mount portion for the part is provided on a casing of an electrical connection box and is formed with tab insertion openings at the same intervals as the tabs of the part. The part is selectively mounted on the common mount portion to connect the tabs inserted through the tab insertion openings with internal circuits of the electrical connection box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Isshiki
  • Patent number: 6000952
    Abstract: An integrated BEDC and PCB provided through a low cost, highly reliable interconnect system. The upper and/or lower half of the main insulation assembly of a BEDC is provided with a recess for accommodating at least an edge portion of the substrate of a PCB. The PCB is provided with apertures such as holes for receiving therethrough a buss wire and/or terminal slots through which terminals having wire slots are fixedly staked. The apertures on the PCB are arranged in a predetermined pattern so as to align with corresponding respective apertures in the form of corresponding holes and/or terminal slots on the BEDC at the recess thereof. Accordingly, with the PCB seated in the recess, as the buss wires are laid, they will pass through the holes in the PCB and/or pass through the wire slot of the terminals and thereby provide interconnection therebetween when the two halves of the main insulation assembly are united and the PCB is sandwiched therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignees: Delco Electronics Corporation, General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Howard Gladd, Jeffrey Michael Hickox, Andrew Frank Rodondi, Sean Michael Kelly, William Shane Murphy
  • Patent number: 5995380
    Abstract: An electrical junction box has a first insulating polymeric portion and a second polymeric portion defining multiple electrically conductive circuits. The circuits are at least partially separated by the first insulating polymeric portion and at least some of the circuits electrically connect together wire harness connector portions. A further aspect of the present invention junction box causes a section of the first insulating polymeric portion to concurrently act as a segment of an outer protective cover for the junction box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Lear Automotive Dearborn, Inc.
    Inventors: H. Winston Maue, Bert W. Eakins
  • Patent number: 5980302
    Abstract: An electrical connection box particularly for a vehicle includes an electrically insulating plate dividing the interior space of the casing into first and second space regions, and bus bars and insulation layers arranged alternatingly in a stack in the first space region. The bus bars form first internal electrical circuits of the box. Wires are accommodated in the second space region, and electrical terminal members each having a tab portion connected by pressure grip connections to the wires. The wires and terminal members form second internal electrical circuits. In order to make a compact box and reduce the number of contact points, the stack of bus bars is supported by the plate. The electrical terminal members comprise first members whose tab portions project out through the casing on one side of the plate, and second terminal members whose tab portions project through the casing on an opposite side of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuuji Saka
  • Patent number: 5967819
    Abstract: To reduce the number of components contained in an electric junction box, an electric junction box containing a bus bar therein includes a connecting area formed integrally on a portion of the bus bar while a complimentary connecting area provided on the lower case cooperates with the connecting area of the bus bar. The bus bar is arranged on the upper surface of the lower case with the connecting areas firmly fastened to each other, with the bus bar being directly fastened to the lower case. The upper cover is placed on and fastened to the lower case while the bus bar is connected to the lower case, thereby making the use of an upper case unnecessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kouichi Okada
  • Patent number: 5934929
    Abstract: An electrical connection box includes a casing having an upper casing (10) and a lower casing (11). Terminal holes (19, 20) are formed on the outer wall of the casing. An insulating plate (12), mounted in the casing, has a several of wiring grooves (13) formed on at least one of its opposite faces (12a, 12b). Terminal driving portions (24 and 25), obtained by increasing a width of the wiring grooves (13), are provided at predetermined locations in the wiring grooves (13). Wires (14, 15) having first and second diameters are inserted into and held in the wiring grooves (13). Pressing contact terminals (16, 17) includes a pressing contact portion (16a, 17a) and an input-output terminal portion (16b, 17b) formed at its opposite ends, respectively. The pressing contact portions (16a, 17a) are driven into the terminal driving portions (24, 25) to connect through pressing contact to the wires (14, 15) held in the wiring grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuji Saka, Takahiro Onizuka, Yoshito Oka, Makoto Kobayashi, Nori Inoue, Jun Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 5915978
    Abstract: A junction box whose total size is reduced without reducing the areas necessary for accommodating fuse receptacles and relay receptacles. The body of the junction box is preferably a flat rectangular parallelepiped. On the first face thereof, there are integral relay receptacles, preferably adjacent one side in a single vertical row. On the opposite face, there is a plurality of fuse receptacles located adjacent the opposite side of the junction box and thereby spaced apart laterally from the relay receptacles. Those fuses which are relatively near to the relay receptacles are for apparatus which is not operated continuously, such as a rear windshield wiper, cigarette lighter, etc. On the four sides of the body are provided the locking members with which the junction box is fixed to the base, usually the chassis of an automotive vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hayakawa, Tsutomu Naitou
  • Patent number: 5913689
    Abstract: The male connector used in an electrical junction box employs a guide rib which is disposed perpendicular to the long side of an enclosing rib which encircles the male tab opening. The guide rib, positioned on both long sides of the enclosing rib, guides the tab into the male tab opening in order to prevent damage which occurs when there is misalignment of the tab with the male tab opening. In order to further assist in the realignment of the tab with the male tab opening, the surfaces of the enclosing rib and the guiding rib are sloped towards the male tab opening to allow the tab to be guided into the male tab opening during assembly of the junction box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinshu Kato
  • Patent number: 5908322
    Abstract: A plurality of bus bars 3 are mounted in a housing 1, and a plurality of reception portions 2A.sub.1, 2A.sub.2 and 2A.sub.3, provided in one side of the housing 1 for receiving a mating connector K, are staggered in a stairs-like manner relative to reception portions 2B.sub.1, 2B.sub.2 and 2B.sub.3 provided in the other side of the housing. With this arrangement, connection pins 5, 5', extending in a branched manner from the bus bars 3, project respectively into the same positions in the associated reception portions 2, and even if the mating connector K is fitted in any of the reception portions 2, metal terminals 6 of the mating connector K are connected respectively to the predetermined connector pins 5, 5'.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Seki
  • Patent number: 5897385
    Abstract: An electrical connection box for use in a vehicle, e.g. a car, has a junction box and a circuit addition box removably mounted on the junction box and having a connector engaging portion for engagement in use by a connector of an external circuit. The circuit addition box has bus bars connecting circuit components of the junction box to the connector engaging portion to provide electrical connection to the external circuit. To achieve a compact arrangement, avoiding the need to adapt the junction box, the circuit addition box is removably mounted on a relay housing of the junction box adapted to receive a relay, the relay housing having electrical terminals engaged by the bus bars of the circuit addition box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.,
    Inventor: Koji Kasai
  • Patent number: 5888089
    Abstract: Opposed inner surfaces of lower and upper casings making up a connection box are flat, and wire arrangement grooves are formed in the inner surfaces. Insertion holes communicate with the wire arrangement grooves in specified positions and are open to the outer surfaces of the casings. A wire is laid into the wire arrangement grooves and is pressed into the slots of the cramping terminals mounted in the insertion holes. The tabs on the cramping terminals project from the outer surfaces of the casings. The casings are held together by nuts and bolts or other devices after the flat inner surfaces are in contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Konoya, Nori Inoue
  • Patent number: 5888088
    Abstract: An electrical connection construction for connecting conductive members of an internal circuit of an electrical connection box and wires of a wiring harness, in which the wires of the wiring harness are inserted into the electrical connection box through openings formed on the electrical connection box such that conductors of the wires of the wiring harness are connected to the conductive members of the internal circuit of the electrical connection box, respectively by a joining member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuchika Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Miyazaki, Takahiro Onizuka, Ryuji Nakanishi, Koji Murakami
  • Patent number: 5882231
    Abstract: A switch connecting structure comprising: a switch in which at least two facing terminal plates are formed within recesses formed in a portion of a housing; bus bars having blade terminals rising from an insulated base; and, connection terminals in which are formed a pair of first resilient clamps that are inserted into said housing recesses and resiliently fit onto said terminal plates, and a pair of second resilient clamps that resiliently fit onto the blade terminals of said bus bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha T AN T
    Inventors: Tsunesuke Takano, Kouichi Sinzawa, Yoji Yabata
  • Patent number: 5868583
    Abstract: An electrical connection box includes an upper casing which has a peripheral wall and a locking portion provided on the peripheral wall; a lower casing which has a peripheral wall and a mating locking portion provided on the peripheral wall; wherein the peripheral wall of one of the upper and lower casings is fitted into the peripheral wall of the other of the upper and lower casings such that the electrical connection box is assembled through engagement of the locking portion of the upper casing with the mating locking portion of the lower casing; a bracket engageable portion which is projected from the peripheral wall of the one of the upper and lower casings such that the electrical connection box is mounted on a vehicle body through engagement of the bracket engageable portion with a bracket secured to the vehicle body; and a rib which is provided on the peripheral wall of the other of the upper and lower casings and is inserted into a groove formed on the peripheral wall of the one of the upper and lower
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomo Naitou, Tatsuya Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 5823819
    Abstract: An electric junction box in which electric power is distributed to electric parts or devices, mounted on an upper side of a part-mounting floor portion of an upper case, through bus bars mounted on a lower side of the part-mounting floor portion. In the electric junction box, a peripheral wall of an upper case has a heat-radiating wall portion which projects upwardly beyond the position of mounting of the electric parts on the part-mounting floor portion of the upper case. The heat-radiating wall portion has a bus bar installation space of a slit-like cross-section which is open to the lower surface of the part-mounting floor portion, and receives the connecting plate of the bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuharu Kondo, Tohru Yamaguchi, Kazuaki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 5801335
    Abstract: A first electrical insulation substrate having a pin and a second electrical insulation substrate having a hole formed therethrough for receiving the pin is provided. The pin is designed to control and limit the flow of the pin material to an upper portion of the pin during a cold forming process to avoid cracking the pin. This is accomplished by making a lower portion of the pin resistant to flow and the upper portion of the pin susceptible to flow. The lower portion of the pin may have a greater cross sectional area than the upper portion thus making the lower portion resistant to flow and the upper portion of the pin susceptible to flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Stacy Ann Brussalis, Joseph Howard Gladd, Aaron Dillon Monroe
  • Patent number: 5797763
    Abstract: An electrical connection box includes an internal circuit in which a several pressing contact terminals are brought into pressing contact with a wire. Input-output terminals of the pressing contact terminals are connected to external circuits. The wire includes an electrically operative portion between one of the pressing contact terminals connected to an external electrical heating element (such as a relay, a fuse, or the like) and another one of the pressing contact terminals. In one example (FIGS. 5 and 6), the electrically operative portion is shifted from a minimal distance path, which takes into account other wires and obstacles, between the one pressing contact terminal and the another pressing contact terminal. This lengthens the wiring path of the wire to a region having a low wiring density which provides additional surface area for heat dissipation. In another examples, (FIGS. 7 and 8) inoperative ends (b, c) of the wire are extend and used to dissipate heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuji Saka, Nori Inoue, Takahiro Onizuka, Yoshito Oka, Makoto Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5791933
    Abstract: A wiring construction of an electrical connection box which has an internal circuit including a wire and a plurality of pressing contact terminals connected to the wire and in which an insulating plate is accommodated in a casing, the wiring construction comprising: a plurality of wiring grooves for receiving the wire or a plurality of pairs of wiring projections for guiding the wire therebetween, which are provided on at least one of opposite faces of the insulating plate such that predetermined portions of the wiring grooves or the wiring projections extend to an outer peripheral edge of the insulating plate; wherein a nonconnective portion of the wire is disposed at the outer peripheral edge of the insulating plate by cutting from the wire a portion of the wire projecting out of the outer peripheral edge of the insulating plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuji Saka, Takahiro Onizuka, Yoshito Oka, Makoto Kobayashi, Nori Inoue
  • Patent number: 5785532
    Abstract: A power distribution box extends through a bulkhead of an automotive vehicle. This power distribution box has a first electrical connector accessible from within an engine compartment. Furthermore, a portion of the power distribution box is accessible from the passenger compartment. In another aspect of the present invention, an electricity storage device, an electricity generating device, an ignition switch, an alternator and various other engine compartment and passenger compartment accessories are electrically connected to the power distribution box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: United Technologies Automotive, Inc.
    Inventors: H. Winston Maue, Mohamad H. Zeiden, Luke P. Steigerwald
  • Patent number: 5782651
    Abstract: To provide a small electrical connection box in which wires can be arranged with an improved degree of flexibility and which can cope with complicated wiring, the wires are arranged at two vertical planes in the space defined by the upper casing and the lower casing and are electrically connected to cramping terminals which are secured in the casings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hisashi Konoya
  • Patent number: 5763827
    Abstract: For a first vehicle kind requiring a first internal circuit to have a first connection circuit for connection of a first set of electrical inserts or a second vehicle kind requiring a second internal circuit to have a second connection circuit for connection of a second set of electrical inserts, the first and second connection circuits being different from each other, a case member is molded with external portions for installation of a corresponding one of the first and second sets of electrical inserts and an internal space including a channel network, and has installed in the internal space the first internal circuit with a first connection circuit composed of a combination of first bus bars set in the channel network, or the second internal circuit with the second connection circuit composed of a combination of second bus bars set in the channel network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Sugiura
  • Patent number: 5759053
    Abstract: A conductor for a connection circuit includes a first conductor band formed in a linear shape and having a base plate and a connection terminal upright at its end and a second conductor band having a base plate and connection terminal extending through a step-like bending conductor and a connection terminal upright at its end are arranged in parallel. The connection terminals of the first conductor band and the second conductor band are opposite to each other. The relative positions of the first and the second conductor band can be adjusted by setting the length of the step-like bending portion for any optional value. The distance between the first conductor band and the second conductor band can be adjusted by bending the base plate portion of the second conductor band in a U-shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Norio Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 5755579
    Abstract: An electric junction box includes a main case having a component connector, an under case having a harness connector, and a longitudinal busbar, which are mounted by making a board surface of the insulated substrate and the longitudinal busbar cross at right angles, and in which the longitudinal busbar is extended to the connector through junction terminals accommodated in the terminal-accommodating cavity. An under case, which is divided into a plurality of sub-cases corresponding to sub-wiring harnesses, is provided with an insulated supporting board for supporting a plurality of junction terminals and a longitudinal busbar. The described arrangement enables each of the separated insulated supporting boards to be fixedly installed in the main case by means of known ways, such as welding, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Yanase, Tetsuro Saimoto
  • Patent number: 5744751
    Abstract: To prevent an incorporated bus bar laminate from being subjected to an excessive pressure when a case is locked, lock fitting is carried out by interfitting an upper case and a lower case in an electric junction box which incorporates a bus bar laminate between holding faces provided on the upper case and the lower case opposite to each other. Seatings protrude in opposite direction from the inside of either or both cases, setting a protruded dimension from the holding surface of the seating to be slightly larger than a thickness of the bus bar laminate and almost equal to a dimension between the holding surfaces. The seating contacts an opposite holding surface, and the case is thus not forced to move in a pressing direction against the bus bar laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Kasai
  • Patent number: 5735713
    Abstract: An electrical junction box includes a cover body having a plurality of cavities with which a plurality of electrical components are engaged; and rear covers which are separately provided for each of sub wire harnesses W1 and W2, and are fixedly combined with the cover body. With the electrical junction box of the invention, connection of power lines is achieved with a general connector, and the connector is connected to a housing which is provided on any one of the rear covers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Sugiura
  • Patent number: 5722851
    Abstract: A circuit component having a plurality of flat cables each formed by covering a group of parallel wires with a thick layer of insulating resin. The cables are superposed and preferably arranged so that their axes are not parallel. Cramping terminals are inserted into flat cables from above and below in specified predetermined positions, and are securely held therein. Wire contacts of the cramping terminals are connected to specific wires by penetrating the wire coatings means of cutters. The cramping terminal may be formed with a tab which forms an external terminal and connects the wire(s) therewith. The cramping terminals may also connect two or more wires of the same flat cable conductor member or of different flat cables, thus forming the desired circuit. A circuit component, including the desired circuit is separately formed in advance. A junction box is completed merely by mounting the preformed circuit component in the casing thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Onizuka, Hideo Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 5718598
    Abstract: An electrical connection box having an internal circuit includes a first circuit having a large current carrying capacity and a second circuit having a small current carrying capacity. The first circuit includes wires each having stranded conductors and contact bonding terminals contact bonded to the stranded conductors and the second circuit includes a single conductor and pressing contact terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuji Saka, Nori Inoue, Takahiro Onizuka, Yoshito Oka, Makoto Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5709567
    Abstract: An assembly for conveying electricity comprising a stamped electrical buss plate having a slot formed therein, and an electrical terminal having a body portion and an upwardly extending prong portion, said body portion having raised features, said terminal being inserted in said stamped electrical buss plate slot so that said raised features engage the edges of said buss plate defining said slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Howard Gladd, Frederick Edward Mlakar
  • Patent number: 5645443
    Abstract: A potential distributor is disclosed which comprises a two-layer, flat base rail having a plurality of flat plug tongues which project from the base rail and are oriented transversely with respect to the course of the rail. The two layers of the base rail are made from two folded limbs of an integral strip which are pressed flat against one another. Catch parts on the outer edges of the two folded limb located in longitudinally staggered relationship are used to produce a third layer of sheet metal material in the base rail. Extensions of the edge parts are bent and produce the flat plug tongues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Delphi Automotive Systems Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Schaller
  • Patent number: 5645457
    Abstract: A screw tightening structure for a switch box wherein an embedded nut is provided for the switch box, there is a bilateral bolt providing screw portions for both sides thereof, one side of screw portions of a bilateral bolt is screwed to the embedded nut, a bus bar and a LA terminal of a connecting electric wire are fixed to the other screw portion of the bilateral bolt by tightening of the nut. Since the damaged bilateral bolt can easily be dismounted, even if the bilateral bolt is damaged, the matter thereof is can be settled by only the replace of the bilateral bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Hirayama, Hidetoshi Sato, Keiji Ushiyama, Koji Miyakoshi
  • Patent number: 5626492
    Abstract: A bus bar construction of an electrical connection box, comprising: a plurality of m and n (m=integer.gtoreq.2, n=integer.gtoreq.2) bus bar pieces in each of which a predetermined number of substantially H-shaped bus bars are arranged in series at a preset pitch and intermediate portions of neighboring ones of the bus bars are linked with each other; the bus bars each having an upper portion formed with a first slot and a lower portion formed with a second slot; the m bus bar pieces being arranged longitudinally in m columns; the n bus bar pieces being arranged laterally in n rows on the m bus bar pieces so as to fit the second slots of the n bus bar pieces into the first slots of the m bus bar pieces h=from above such that the m and n bus are pieces are assembled with each other in latticed shape. The intermediate portions of each of the n bus bar pieces is then cut off in accordance with a necessary circuit pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1997
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Onizuka, Jun Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 5618186
    Abstract: An electrical connection box comprises a casing (10,11;111,112) having a receiving portions (17-20;30;18';116,177) for making a mechanical connection with connecting portions (22-25;31;3';23) of external circuits, wherein an engaging surface (S;116a-118a) is formed in association with each of the receiving portions for the connecting portion of the respective external circuit, and internal circuits (W1,W2,15A-15;D;W1, W2, 15E; W1,W2,120). The internal circuits comprise wires (W1,W2) arranged in at least one stage, and connection terminals (15A-15D;15E;120) which are connected with any of the wires (W1,W2) and which extend to respective receiving portions (17-20;30;18'; 116,117) of the casing (10,11; 111,112) so as to form input/output terminal portions (15c) for the electrical connection with the external circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuji Saka, Takahiro Onizuka, Yoshito Oka, Makoto Kobayashi, Nori Inoue