Electrical junction box

• US 6,848,916 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2003
• Issued: 02/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Nakayama, Makoto, Saito, Hironori, Saneto, Akinori, Kaneko, Tetsu
• Primary Examiner(s): PAUMEN, GARY F
• Application Number:
  US10/627,627
• Publication Number:
  US 20040055775A1
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 439/76.2, 439/949, 174/50, 174/52.1, 174/58, 361/752, 361/736, 361/641, 361/644, 361/833
• US Class Current: 439/76.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0239 Electronic boxes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 439/949 Junction box with busbar for plug-socket type interconnection with receptacle

Abstract

An electrical junction box comprises a junction box body and a cover which houses and holds the junction box body. A guide rail groove is provided on any one of an inner surface of the cover and an outer surface of the junction box body, and a guide rail guided by the guide rail groove is provided on the other thereof. Further, the junction box body is held in the cover at a slant with respect to the guide rail and the guide rail groove.

Claims

1. An electrical junction box, comprising:

a junction box body; and

a cover which houses and holds the junction box body,

wherein a guide rail groove is provided on any one of an inner surface of the cover and an outer surface of the junction box body, and a guide rail guided by the guide rail groove is provided on the other thereof; and

the junction box body is held in the cover at a slant with respect to the guide rail and the guide rail groove.

2. The electrical junction box of claim 1, further comprising:

a frame provided on a circumference of the junction box body,

wherein any one of the guide rail groove and the guide rail is provided on an outer surface of the frame.

3. The electrical junction box of claim 2,

wherein the guide rail groove is provided on an inner surface of the cover;

and

the guide rail is provided on an outer surface of the frame.

4. The electrical junction box of claim 1,

wherein a fuse is mounted on a maintenance surface of the junction box body.

5. The electrical junction box of claim 2,

wherein an arm lock is provided on the frame, and the arm lock is elastically deformed to be engaged with a projection of the junction box body so that the frame is attached to the junction box body.

6. The electrical junction box of claim 1,

wherein the guide rail groove includes a straight groove part and a curved groove part.

7. The electrical junction box of claim 1,

wherein a locking groove is provided on an inner side of the guide rail groove, and a lock projection engaged with the locking groove is provided on the side of the guide rail, in order to allow the cover to hold the junction box body.

8. The electrical junction box of claim 1, further comprising:

a wire harness fixing mechanism which fixes a part of a wire harness, which is connected to the junction box body, to a side of the junction box body.