Electric connector assembly kit and shielded cable harness

• US 20090068890A1
• Filed: 09/05/2008
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JST Manufacturing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: JST Manufacturing Company Limited
• Inventors: Moriwake, Ryo, Horiuchi, Hideaki
• Granted Patent: US 7,601,029 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/607.410
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/582 the cable being clamped between assembled parts of the housing
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6593 the shield being composed of different pieces
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2103/00 Two poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/50 mounted on a PCB [Printed Circuit Board]
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/20 using a crimping sleeve H01R4/01 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 9/0518 Connection to outer conductor by crimping or by crimping ferrule

Abstract

The electric connector assembly kit is structured that the inner wire of the end of the shielded cable is fitted and held in the wire holding part of the wire holder and the outer conductor is crimped by the barrel, the connector body is set on the lower side of the wire holder, the inner conductor of the inner wire is connected to the contact and the barrel is press-fitted in the U-shaped slot, the plug cover shell is set on the higher side of the wire holder and made to contact the barrel, and the top end of the coupling piece extending toward the lower side between the U-shaped slots is bent toward the back side in the depth direction and hooked on the plug shell from the lower side to assemble onto the end of the shielded cable.

Claims

1. An electric connector assembly kit to be assembled onto an end of a shielded cable comprising an inner wire being an inner conductor covered by an inner insulating coating, an outer conductor covering the inner wire, and an outer insulating coating covering the outer conductor,

said electric connector assembly kit comprising;

with reference to a depth direction, a width direction, and a height direction all being perpendicular to each other, a wire holder having an insulating holder housing being provided with a groove-shaped wire holding part for holding the inner wire being exposed from the outer conductor at the end of the shielded cable and extending substantially in the depth direction, and a conductive barrel contact being fixed to the holder housing and being provided with a barrel being formed substantially into a U-shape when seen in the depth direction on the front side in the depth direction of the wire holding part of the holder housing for crimping the outer conductor exposed from the outer insulating coating at the end of the shielded cable;

a connector body having an insulating body housing having a fitting part for fitting with a counterpart electric connector, a conductive contact being provided on the body housing and being to be connected to the inner conductor at the end of the shielded cable and to contact the contact of the counterpart electric connector, and a conductive plate-shaped plug shell being arranged on the lower side of the body housing to cover at least a part of the body housing, being fixed onto the body housing, and being provided with a supporting piece rising on the front side in the depth direction of the body housing and extending toward the higher side and being provided with a U-shaped slot concaving substantially in a U-shaped form when seen in the depth direction from the higher side edge of the supporting piece toward the lower side and being to receive the press-fitted barrel crimped on the outer conductor with the barrel'"'"'s lower substantially half circumference contacting the U-shaped slot and the barrel'"'"'s higher side protruding toward the higher side; and

a conductive plate-shaped plug cover shell having a coupling piece having a width substantially corresponding to the part between the U-shaped slots in the supporting piece of the plug shell and extending from the front side in the depth direction toward the lower side;

said electric connector assembly kit being structured that the inner wire of the end of the shielded cable being fitted and held in the wire holding part of the wire holder and the outer conductor being crimped by the barrel, the connector body being set on the lower side of the wire holder, the inner conductor of the inner wire being connected to the contact and the barrel being press-fitted in the U-shaped slot, the plug cover shell being set on the higher side of the wire holder and fitted with the barrel, and the top end of the coupling piece extending toward the lower side between U-shaped slots being bent toward the back side in the depth direction and hooked on the plug shell from the lower side to assemble onto the end of the shielded cable.

2. The electric connector assembly kit according to claim 1,

wherein the electric connector assembly kit is structured that a through window penetrating the plug shell is formed between the U-shaped slots of said plug shell, and when the top end of the coupling piece of the plug cover shell is bent toward the back side in the depth direction, the top end of the coupling piece will be hooked on the edge on the front side in the depth direction of the through window.

3. A shielded cable harness comprising a shielded cable having an inner wire being an inner conductor covered by an inner insulating coating, an outer conductor covering the inner wire, and an outer insulating coating covering the outer conductor, and exposing at the end the outer conductor and the inner wire in this order toward the top end, and an electric connector connected to the end of the shielded cable;

said electric connector comprising;

with reference to a depth direction, a width direction, and a height direction all being perpendicular to each other, a wire holder having an insulating holder housing being provided with a groove-shaped wire holding part for fitting and holding the inner wire being exposed from the outer conductor at the end of the shielded cable and extending substantially in the depth direction, and a conductive barrel contact being fixed to the holder housing and being provided with a barrel being formed substantially into a ring-shape with a separation on the higher side when seen in the depth direction on the front side in the depth direction of the wire holding part of the holder housing for crimping the outer conductor exposed from the outer insulating coating at the end of the shielded cable;

a connector body having an insulating body housing being set on the lower side of the wire holder and having a fitting part for fitting with a counterpart electric connector, a conductive contact being provided on the body housing and connected to the inner conductor at the end of the shielded cable and to contact the contact of the counterpart electric connector, and a conductive plate-shaped plug shell being arranged on the lower side of the body housing to cover at least a part of the body housing, being fixed onto the body housing, and being provided with a supporting piece rising on the front side in the depth direction of the body housing and extending toward the higher side and being provided with a U-shaped slot concaving substantially in a U-shaped form when seen in the depth direction from the higher side edge of the supporting piece toward the lower side and receiving the press-fitted barrel crimped on the outer conductor with the barrel'"'"'s lower substantially half circumference contacting the U-shaped slot and the barrel'"'"'s higher side protruding toward the higher side from the supporting piece; and

a conductive plate-shaped plug cover shell being set on the higher side of the wire holder to contact the barrel and having a coupling piece having a width substantially corresponding to the part between the U-shaped slots in the supporting piece of the plug shell and extending from the front side in the depth direction toward the lower side, of which top end being bent to the back side in the depth direction and hooked on the plug shell from the lower side.

4. The shielded cable harness according to claim 3,

wherein a through window penetrating the plug shell is formed between U-shaped slots of said plug shell and the top end of the coupling piece of the plug cover shell is hooked on the edge on the front side in the depth direction of the through window.