Fitting connector

• US 10,535,948 B2
• Filed: 05/10/2019
• Issued: 01/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Mori, Yuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phuong Chi Thi
• Application Number:
  US16/409,747
• Publication Number:
  US 20190348790A1
• Time in Patent Office: 249 Days
• Field of Search: 439843, 439839, 439844-847
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/04 Pins or blades for co-operation with sockets
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/10 Sockets for co-operation with pins or blades
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/111 co-operating with pins having a circular transverse section
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/187 with spring member in the socket
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/44 Means for preventing access to live contacts making use of a switch actuated by engagement of counterpart H01R13/7036

Abstract

A fitting connector includes a female connector provided with a female terminal and a female-side insulating member, and a male connector provided with a male terminal and a male-side insulating member. The male-side connecting body has a male-side space part into which an inner cylindrical body in a cylindrical shape having insulating property is inserted on the same cylindrical axis, and the female-side insulating member has a finger touch preventing body having a columnar or cylindrical shape arranged in the female-side space part on the same axis line as the cylindrical axis of the female-side space part, and inserted into a first space part formed inside the outer cylindrical body and a second space part formed inside the inner cylindrical body when the female-side connecting body and the male-side connecting body are in an inserted and fitted state.

Claims

1. A fitting connector comprising:

a female connector that is provided with a female terminal and a female-side insulating member having insulating property; and

a male connector that is provided with a male terminal and a male-side insulating member having insulating property, wherein

the female terminal has a female-side connecting body having a cylindrical shape, where a female-side space part is formed inside,

the male terminal has a male-side connecting body having a cylindrical shape to be inserted into and fitted with the female-side space part on a same cylindrical axis,

the male-side insulating member has an outer cylindrical body having a cylindrical shape that covers a tip surface of the male-side connecting body on a connector insertion direction side, on the same cylindrical axis,

the male-side connecting body has, in inside thereof, a male-side space part into which an inner cylindrical body having a cylindrical shape and insulating property is inserted on the same cylindrical axis, and

the female-side insulating member has a finger touch preventing body having a columnar or cylindrical shape that is arranged in the female-side space part on the same axis line as the cylindrical axis of the female-side space part, and that is inserted into a first space part formed inside the outer cylindrical body and a second space part formed inside the inner cylindrical body, when the female-side connecting body and the male-side connecting body are in an inserted and fitted state.

2. The fitting connector according to claim 1, wherein

the finger touch preventing body is further projected than the tip surface of the female-side connecting body on the connector insertion direction side, in the axis line direction, and

in the female connector, an annular body having insulating property that is further projected than the tip surface of the female-side connecting body on the same cylindrical axis is provided outside the female-side space part in an orthogonal direction with respect to the cylindrical axis direction of the female-side connecting body.

3. The fitting connector according to claim 1, wherein

a length of the inner cylindrical body in the cylindrical axis direction is a length that causes a tip of the finger touch preventing body on the connector insertion direction side to be arranged in the second space part when the female-side connecting body and the male-side connecting body are in the inserted and fitted state.

4. The fitting connector according to claim 3, wherein

the finger touch preventing body is further projected than the tip surface of the female-side connecting body on the connector insertion direction side, in the axis line direction, and

in the female connector, an annular body having insulating property that is further projected than the tip surface of the female-side connecting body on the same cylindrical axis is provided outside the female-side space part in an orthogonal direction with respect to the cylindrical axis direction of the female-side connecting body.

5. The fitting connector according to claim 1, wherein

the inner cylindrical body is integrated with the outer cylindrical body.

6. The fitting connector according to claim 5, wherein

the finger touch preventing body is further projected than the tip surface of the female-side connecting body on the connector insertion direction side, in the axis line direction, and

in the female connector, an annular body having insulating property that is further projected than the tip surface of the female-side connecting body on the same cylindrical axis is provided outside the female-side space part in an orthogonal direction with respect to the cylindrical axis direction of the female-side connecting body.

7. The fitting connector according to claim 5, wherein

a length of the inner cylindrical body in the cylindrical axis direction is a length that causes a tip of the finger touch preventing body on the connector insertion direction side to be arranged in the second space part when the female-side connecting body and the male-side connecting body are in the inserted and fitted state.

8. The fitting connector according to claim 7, wherein

the finger touch preventing body is further projected than the tip surface of the female-side connecting body on the connector insertion direction side, in the axis line direction, and

in the female connector, an annular body having insulating property that is further projected than the tip surface of the female-side connecting body on the same cylindrical axis is provided outside the female-side space part in an orthogonal direction with respect to the cylindrical axis direction of the female-side connecting body.