Terminal board

• US 20040214477A1
• Filed: 09/04/2003
• Published: 10/28/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Ikeda, Tomohiro
• Granted Patent: US 6,905,375 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/709
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/30 utilising a screw or nut clamping member H01R4/50 takes precedence; utilising a clamping member acted on by screw or nut H01R4/38; for coaxial cables H01R9/0521
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 9/18 Fastening by means of screw or nut
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 9/223 Insulating enclosures for terminals for switches H01H9/0264

Abstract

In a terminal board, at which a first connecting member of a power feeding side and a second connecting member of a power receiving side are electrically connected, a board body is formed with a chamber and an opening continued from the chamber. A first fastening member has a contact portion, and is accommodated in the chamber to fasten the first connecting member and the second connecting member on the contact portion with a second fastening member along a fastening axis. The first fastening member is movable in the chamber in a first direction parallel to the fastening axis, so that the contact portion is projected from the opening in accordance with a fastening operation of the first connecting member and the second connecting member.

Claims

1. A terminal board, at which a first connecting member of a power feeding side and a second connecting member of a power receiving side are electrically connected, the terminal board comprising:

a board body, formed with a chamber and an opening continued from the chamber; and

a first fastening member, having a contact portion, and accommodated in the chamber to fasten the first connecting member and the second connecting member on the contact portion with a second fastening member along a fastening axis, the first fastening member being movable in the chamber in a first direction parallel to the fastening axis, so that the contact portion is projected from the opening in accordance with a fastening operation of the first connecting member and the second connecting member.

2. The terminal board as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the first fastening member is formed with a projected portion extending in a second direction perpendicular to the fastening axis;

the chamber is formed with a first retainer against which the projected portion abuts in a case where the first fastening member is located at a first end of the movement in the chamber, and a second retainer against which the projected portion abuts in a case where the first fastening member is located at a second end of the movement in the chamber, and

wherein a distance in the first direction between the first retainer and the second retainer is larger than a thickness in the first direction of the projected portion.

3. The terminal board as set forth in claim 2, wherein the contact portion is not projected from the opening in a case where the first fastening member abuts against the second retainer.

4. The terminal board as set forth in claim 1, wherein a projection projected from an inner face of the chamber in the second direction and extended in the first direction is abutted against the first fastening member.

5. The terminal board as set forth in claim 1, wherein the chamber has such a cross section in the second direction as to prevent the first fastening member from rotating in accordance with the fastening operation.

6. The terminal board as set forth in claim 1, wherein the first fastening member is a nut member, and the second fastening member is a bolt member.

7. The terminal board as set forth in claim 1, wherein the first fastening member is a bolt member, and the second fastening member is a nut member.