Electric connection box

• US 4,959,018 A
• Filed: 06/28/1989
• Issued: 09/25/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Sato, Hisashi, Yamamoto, Masaki, Ozaki, Keiichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Desmond, Eugene F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hanchuk, Walter G.
• Application Number:
  US07/372,595
• Time in Patent Office: 454 Days
• Field of Search: 439/76, 439/278, 439/281, 439/282, 439/283, 439/34, 439/901, 439/904, 439/205, 439/206, 439/519, 439/521, 439/548, 439/556, 439/559, 439/587, 439/589, 439/271, 174/52.1, 174/52.3, 174/251, 174/255, 174/259
• US Class Current: 439/76.1
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/5227 with evacuation of penetrating liquids
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 9/2458 Electrical interconnections between terminal blocks
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/088 Dustproof, splashproof, drip-proof, waterproof, or flameproof casings or inlets
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/16 structurally associated with support for line-connecting terminals within the box
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/107 by filling grooves in the support with conductive material H05K3/045, H05K3/101, H05K3/1258 and H05K3/465 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/202 using self-supporting metal foil pattern
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/026 Multiple connections subassemblies

Abstract

An electrical connection box for use with automobile wires. Improved waterproofing is provided by arranging bus bars in grooves defined by walls as a base plate, and overlying said bars with waterproof elements.

Claims

1. In an electric connection box of the type having at least one layer of bus bars disposed on an insulating base plate to form a circuit board, said circuit board being within said connection box;

the improvement comprising;

means on said base plate defining grooves within which lie the bus bars of said at least one layer of bus bars;

said grooves having a pattern corresponding to the pattern of said bus bars of said at least one layer;

said means comprising walls surrounding said bus bars; and

waterproof elements individually covering said bus bars within said grooves.

2. An electric connection box as claimed in claim 1, wherein said walls are comprised by raised ribs on said base plate.

3. An electric connection box as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein said walls surrounding said bus bars extend upward past an upper surface of said bus bars.

4. An electric connection box as claimed in claim 3, wherein said waterproof elements individually cover said bus bars and are connected together by bridge elements which overlay parts of said walls to thereby form a water resistant assembly.