Relay arrangement structure

• US 20050159024A1
• Filed: 01/19/2005
• Published: 07/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Yamada, Hiroaki, Maebashi, Akemi
• Application Number:
  US11/037,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20050159024A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/64
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2050/049 Assembling or mounting multiple relays in one common housing
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 50/04 Mounting complete relay or separate parts of relay on a base or inside a case
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 50/14 Terminal arrangements for coils H01H50/443
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/144 Stacked arrangements of planar printed circuit boards
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10053 Switch
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/202 using self-supporting metal foil pattern

Abstract

Two circuit boards 1′ and 3′ are disposed vertically, and the relays 2 and 4, provided respectively on the circuit boards, are arranged side by side in a vertical or a horizontal direction. Each of the circuit boards 1′ and 3′ include a bus bar circuit board, and terminals 7 of each relay 2, 4 are connected to bus bars 6, 13 of the corresponding bus bar circuit board. Part of the bus bars 6, 13 of each of the circuit boards 1′, 3′ project outwardly from the circuit board to provide terminal portions 6c, 13c for forming a connector. The bus bars 6 on the one circuit board 1′ and/or the bus bars 13 on the other circuit board 3′ are covered with respective insulating sub-boards 9 and 14 to be insulated respectively from the second relays 4 and the first relays 2.

Claims

1. A relay arrangement structure comprising:

a first circuit board;

a first relay that is mounted on the first circuit board in a relay mounting direction;

a second circuit board that is opposed to the first circuit board; and

a second relay that is mounted on the second circuit board and arranged so that the first relay is displaced from the second relay in a direction perpendicular to the relay mounting direction to make a distance between the first and second circuit boards shorter than a sum of a height of the first and second relays.

2. A relay arrangement structure according to claim 1, wherein the first and second circuit boards include bus bar circuit boards having bus bars, respectively, and the first and second relays include terminals connected to the bus bars of the corresponding bus bar circuit boards, respectively.

3. A relay arrangement structure according to claim 2, wherein the bus bars include connectors that project from the first and second circuit boards, respectively.

4. A relay arrangement structure according to claim 2, wherein the bus bar, which is opposed to at least one of the first and second relays, is covered with an insulating sub-board.

5. A relay arrangement structure according to claim 1, wherein the first circuit board includes a plurality of the first relays, and the second circuit board includes a plurality of the second relays.

6. A relay arrangement structure comprising:

a first circuit board;

a first relay that is mounted on the first circuit board in a relay mounting direction;

a second circuit board that is opposed to the first circuit board; and

a second relay that is mounted on the second circuit board, wherein a portion of the first relay is superposed on a portion of the second relay in a direction perpendicular to the relay mounting direction.