Conductive elastic member and connector

• US 9,653,832 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2016
• Issued: 05/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Higashitani, Masanobu, Kataoka, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): GUSHI, ROSS N
• Application Number:
  US15/264,710
• Publication Number:
  US 20170005427A1
• Time in Patent Office: 244 Days
• Field of Search: 439 86, 439 91
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/2407 characterized by the resilient means
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/2414 conductive elastomers
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/33 Contact members made of resilient wire
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6584 formed by conductive elastomeric members, e.g. flat gaskets or O-rings

Abstract

A conductive elastic member is formed by having a columnar member having elasticity, and plural wire rods which extend from one end face to the other end face of the columnar member in an axial direction and are formed in a state inclined with respect to the axial direction and have conductivity. At least a part of the plural wire rods are cabled in a direction of intersection mutually.

Claims

1. A conductive elastic member comprising:

a columnar member having elasticity; and

plural wire rods having conductivity, extending from one end face to the other end face of the columnar member in an axial direction thereof, and inclined with respect to the axial direction,

wherein the wire rods have plural first wire rods and second wire rods cabled in parallel mutually along a direction substantially orthogonal to the axial direction,

the first wire rods and the second wire rods are respectively cabled along opposed side surfaces of a virtual truncated pyramid extending through the columnar member, and

each of the wire rods of the first wire rods and each of the wire rods of the second wire rods are respectively formed so as to be joined on an upper base side of the virtual truncated pyramid by third wire rods cabled along the other end face.

2. A connector comprising:

a first housing for holding one terminal;

a second housing for holding the other terminal; and

a conductive elastic member accommodated in one of the first housing and the second housing,

wherein, when the first housing is fitted into the second housing, the conductive elastic member comes in contact with the one terminal and the other terminal so as to electrically connect the one terminal and the other terminal through the conductive elastic member, and

the conductive elastic member is the conductive elastic member according to claim 1.

3. A conductive elastic member comprising:

a columnar member having elasticity; and

plural wire rods having conductivity, extending from one end face to the other end face of the columnar member in an axial direction thereof, and inclined with respect to the axial direction,

wherein the wire rods are cabled along a side surface of a virtual truncated cone extending through the columnar member.

4. A connector comprising:

a first housing for holding one terminal;

a second housing for holding the other terminal; and

a conductive elastic member accommodated in one of the first housing and the second housing,

wherein, when the first housing is fitted into the second housing, the conductive elastic member comes in contact with the one terminal and the other terminal so as to electrically connect the one terminal and the other terminal through the conductive elastic member, and

the conductive elastic member is the conductive elastic member according to claim 3.

5. A conductive elastic member comprising:

a columnar member having elasticity; and

plural wire rods having conductivity, extending from one end face to the other end face of the columnar member in an axial direction thereof, and inclined with respect to the axial direction,

wherein the wire rods are mutually intersected in a middle of the columnar member in the axial direction and are respectively cabled in a conical shape from the intersected portion toward both of the end faces.

6. The conductive elastic member according to claim 5,

wherein, when the columnar member is divided by a plane including an axis, a ratio between exposed areas of the wire rods exposed to both of the end faces of each of the divided columnar members in the axial direction is identical in an allowable range.

7. A connector comprising:

a first housing for holding one terminal;

a second housing for holding the other terminal; and

a conductive elastic member accommodated in one of the first housing and the second housing,

wherein, when the first housing is fitted into the second housing, the conductive elastic member comes in contact with the one terminal and the other terminal so as to electrically connect the one terminal and the other terminal through the conductive elastic member, and

the conductive elastic member is the conductive elastic member according to claim 6.

8. A connector comprising:

a first housing for holding one terminal;

a second housing for holding the other terminal; and

a conductive elastic member accommodated in one of the first housing and the second housing,

wherein, when the first housing is fitted into the second housing, the conductive elastic member comes in contact with the one terminal and the other terminal so as to electrically connect the one terminal and the other terminal through the conductive elastic member, and

the conductive elastic member is the conductive elastic member according to claim 5.