Terminal and charging connector

• US 9,570,862 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2015
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Kawai, Ryuji, Fukushima, Hirotaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Gushi, Ross
• Application Number:
  US14/978,465
• Publication Number:
  US 20160111831A1
• Time in Patent Office: 420 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/36 Temperature of vehicle components or parts
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/16 Connectors, e.g. plugs or sockets, specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/04 Pins or blades for co-operation with sockets
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6278 comprising a pin snapping into a recess
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6683 with built-in sensor
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/26 for vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

In a terminal including: a terminal body that has a mating terminal contact part with which a mating terminal is brought into contact, and a sensor fixing part; and a thermistor fixed to the sensor fixing part, and a charging connector using the terminal, the sensor fixing part has a cylindrical shape in which the thermistor is inserted, the thermistor has a lock part, and is allowed to be inserted in the sensor fixing part by elastic deformation of the sensor fixing part, and at an insertion completion position, the lock part is locked to the sensor fixing part.

Claims

1. A terminal comprising:

a terminal body that has a mating terminal contact part with which a mating terminal is brought into contact, and a sensor fixing part; and

a temperature sensor fixed to the sensor fixing part, wherein

the sensor fixing part has a hollow portion in which the temperature sensor is inserted,

the temperature sensor has a lock part, is allowed to be inserted in the sensor fixing part by elastic deformation of at least either one of the lock part and the sensor fixing part, and at an insertion completion position, the lock part is locked to the sensor fixing part by restoring elastic deformation,

the terminal body has an electrical wire connection part, and

the sensor fixing part is provided between the mating terminal contact part and the electrical wire connection part.

2. A charging connector comprising:

the terminal according to claim 1; and

a connector housing that houses the terminal.