Shield connector

• US 10,305,226 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2016
• Issued: 05/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Iida, Tetsuya, Kurono, Yosuke, Mizutani, Tatsuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Gushi, Ross N
• Application Number:
  US15/769,084
• Publication Number:
  US 20180309245A1
• Time in Patent Office: 956 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6591 Specific features or arrangements of connection of shield to conductive members
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6593 the shield being composed of different pieces
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6598 Shield material

Abstract

A shield connector (1) includes electric wires (11), a housing (20), a shield conductor (30), and a shield bracket (40). The shield bracket 40 includes a main bracket (50) including a conductor holding portion (51), first and second connection portions (61, 71) and an auxiliary bracket (80). The conductor holding portion (51) and the shield conductor (30) held thereby the cover outlet tubes (27) and the electric wires (11) from one side. The housing (20) includes first and second attachment protrusions (25, 26). The first connection portion (61) includes a first attachment piece (64) engaged with the first attachment protrusion (25). The auxiliary bracket (80) includes an auxiliary attachment piece (82) engaged with the second attachment protrusion (26). An overlapping plate (81) of the auxiliary bracket (80) is swaged onto the second connection portion (71) by a swaging piece (75) of the second connection portion (71).

Claims

1. A shield connector comprising:

a connector housing;

an electric wire extending outward from the connector housing;

a shield conductor shielding the electric wire, and

a shield attachment member holding the shield conductor and attached to the connector housing, wherein

the shield attachment member includes a main attachment member and an auxiliary attachment member attached to the main attachment member,

the main attachment member includes a conductor holding portion positioned on one side of the connector housing and a first connection portion and a second connection portion each extending from the conductor holding portion,

the shield conductor held by the conductor holding portion covers the electric wire from the one side,

the connector housing includes a first engagement portion and a second engagement portion, the first connection portion includes a first receiving portion in engagement with the first engagement portion, and the auxiliary attachment member includes a second receiving portion in engagement with the second engagement portion,

the second connection portion includes a third engagement portion, and the auxiliary attachment member includes a third receiving portion in engagement with the third engagement portion, and

the auxiliary attachment member includes only the second receiving portion and the third receiving portion.

2. The shield connector according to claim 1, wherein the first engagement portion and the second engagement portion are positioned on an opposite side of the connector housing from a side facing the conductor holding portion.

3. The shield connector according to claim 1, wherein one of the connector housing and the conductor holding portion includes a fourth engagement portion and the other includes a fourth receiving portion in engagement with the fourth engagement portion.

4. A shield connector, comprising:

a connector housing (20) having opposite first and second sides and first and second longitudinal ends (21C, 21D), and first and second engagement portions (25, 26) formed in proximity to the first and second longitudinal ends (21C, 21D);

an electric wire (11) extending outward from the connector housing (20);

a shield attachment member (40) attached to the connector housing (20) and comprising;

a main attachment member (50) having a conductor holding portion (51) positioned on the first side of the connector housing and holding a shield conductor (30) shielding the electric wire (11), and first and second connection portions (61, 71) extending from the conductor holding portion (51) to positions in proximity to the first and second longitudinal ends (21C, 21D) of the connector housing (20), the first connection portion (61) having a first receiving portion (64) engaged directly with the first engagement portion (25) of the connector housing (20); and

an auxiliary attachment member (80) formed separately from the main attachment member (50) and attached to the second connection portion (71) of the main attachment member (50), and the auxiliary attachment member (80) including a second receiving portion (82) attached to the second engagement portion (26) of the connector housing (20).

5. The shield connector according to claim 4, wherein the auxiliary attachment member includes only the second receiving portion and the third receiving portion.

6. The shield connector according to claim 5, wherein one of the connector housing and the conductor holding portion includes a fourth engagement portion and the other includes a fourth receiving portion in engagement with the fourth engagement portion.

7. The shield connector of claim 4, wherein the auxiliary attachment member (80) includes an overlapping plate portion (81) in contact with the second connection portion (71), and the second receiving portion (82) is a through hole extending through the overlapping plate portion (81).

8. The shield connector of claim 4, wherein the second connection portion (71) includes a swaging portion (75) and the auxiliary attachment member (80) is swaged to the second connection portion (71).

9. A shield connector comprising:

a connector housing;

an electric wire extending outward from the connector housing;

a shield conductor shielding the electric wire, and

a shield attachment member holding the shield conductor and attached to the connector housing, wherein

the shield attachment member includes a main attachment member and an auxiliary attachment member attached to the main attachment member,

the main attachment member includes a conductor holding portion positioned on one side of the connector housing and a first connection portion and a second connection portion each extending from the conductor holding portion,

the shield conductor held by the conductor holding portion covers the electric wire from the one side,

the connector housing includes a first engagement portion and a second engagement portion, the first connection portion includes a first receiving portion in engagement with the first engagement portion, and the auxiliary attachment member includes a second receiving portion in engagement with the second engagement portion,

the second connection portion includes a third engagement portion, and the auxiliary attachment member includes a third receiving portion in engagement with the third engagement portion,

the first engagement portion and the second engagement portion are positioned on an opposite side of the connector housing from a side facing the conductor holding portion, and

one of the connector housing and the conductor holding portion includes a fourth engagement portion and the other includes a fourth receiving portion in engagement with the fourth engagement portion.