US 11,949,199 B2
Terminal block and air conditioner
Kazunari Fukagawa, Osaka (JP); Koushou Shouyama, Osaka (JP); and Ryuuichi Toyota, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 16/771,123
Filed by DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 26, 2018, PCT No. PCT/JP2018/043410
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 9, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/116872, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 20, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-238799 (JP), filed on Dec. 13, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0167528 A1, Jun. 3, 2021
Int. Cl. H01R 9/24 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 9/2408 (2013.01) 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A terminal block comprising:
a first split body that comprises one or more terminal connection parts and a first coupling portion protruding from the first split body;
a second split body that comprises one or more terminal connection parts and a second coupling portion coupled to the first coupling portion; and
a coupling member that couples the first coupling portion to the second coupling portion and fixes the first split body and the second split body to a mount to which the terminal block is mounted, wherein
the first coupling portion comprises:
a pair of side plates having major surfaces that are parallel to each other and face each other in a direction that is perpendicular to a fixing direction in which the coupling member fixes the first split body and the second split body to the mount and that hold the second coupling portion therebetween; and
an upper plate that comprises an insertion hole into which the coupling member is inserted, wherein
the major surfaces of the pair of side plates, which face each other, and the upper plate enclose the second coupling portion from three different directions, and
the pair of side plates are directly connected to the upper plate,
the second coupling portion comprises an insertion hole, and
only the coupling member is inserted into the insertion hole of the first coupling portion and the insertion hole of the second coupling portion.