Connector

• US 8,425,256 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2011
• Issued: 04/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Aoki, Eiji, Nojima, Motoo, Mizuno, Taro
• Primary Examiner(s): Paumen, Gary F.
• Application Number:
  US13/379,718
• Publication Number:
  US 20120094537A1
• Time in Patent Office: 742 Days
• Field of Search: 43962029-62033, 439/620.26
• US Class Current: 439/620.26
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/5219 Sealing means between coupling parts, e.g. interfacial seal
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/688 with housing part adapted for accessing the fuse
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/74 Means for mounting coupling parts in openings of a panel

Abstract

It is an object to provide a connector to which a fuse can be detachably attached and that can reduce components or improve reliability and improve a shield performance. The connector includes first and second bus bars 11 and 21, a fuse 31 that electrically conducts and connects the first and second bus bars 11 and 21 to each other so as to be fused and a housing 41 that accommodates the first and second bus bars 11 and 21 and the fuse 31. The first and second bus bars 21 include tabs 12 and 22 for a device inserted into the device 3 and connected to a circuit in the device 3. The housing 41 has a hood part 43 that covers the peripheries of the tabs 12 and 22 for the device and is fitted to a connector attaching hole 6 of the device 3 and the fuse 31 is attached to an accommodating space 45 in the hood part 43.

Claims

1. A connector including:

a first bus bar;

a second bus bar separate from the first bus bar;

a fuse having one end screwed to the first bus bar and the other end screwed to the second bus bar to electrically conduct and connect the first bus bar and the second bus bar to each other so as to be fused; and

a housing that accommodates the first bus bar, the second bus bar and the fuse,

wherein the first bus bar and the second bus bar include a tab for a device inserted into the device and connected to a circuit in the device and a tab for an external electric wire connected to the external electric wire, the housing has a hood part that covers a periphery of the tab for the device and is fitted to a connector attaching hole of the device and the fuse is attached to an accommodating space in the hood part opened to the device.

2. The connector according to claim 1, wherein a packing is provided in an outer periphery of the hood part to liquid-tightly seal a part between the hood part and the connector attaching hole.

3. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the electric wire connected to the tab for the external electric wire is a shielded electric wire and a shield cover that covers the outer periphery of the housing to electromagnetically shield inner and outer parts of the housing is attached to the housing.