US 12,272,893 B2
Electrical connection structure
Minoru Kubota, Makinohara (JP)
Assigned to YAZAKI CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/873,767.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-123528 (JP), filed on Jul. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0032114 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 12/70 (2011.01); H01R 12/71 (2011.01); H01R 12/75 (2011.01); H01R 13/04 (2006.01); H01R 13/11 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/113 (2013.01) [H01R 12/7076 (2013.01); H01R 12/718 (2013.01); H01R 12/75 (2013.01); H01R 13/04 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical connection structure comprising:
a first unit including a terminal;
a second unit including a connection terminal; and
a third unit including an electric wire and a second connection terminal provided at an end portion of the electric wire,
wherein the electrical connection structure is configured by mounting the second unit to the first unit such that the connection terminal is electrically connected to the terminal,
wherein the terminal comprises a main body portion, a pair of leg portions and a pair of tabs, the pair of tabs are bent and extend upward in a direction opposite to the leg portions at front and rear side edges of the main body portion,
wherein the connection terminal and the second connection terminal respectively include a receptacle formed with a connection groove into which one of the pair of tabs is inserted, and a spring contact provided on inner side surfaces of the connection groove,
wherein the spring contact comes into elastic contact with outer surfaces of the tab inserted into the connection groove, and
wherein the second connection terminal of the third unit is connected to the terminal of the first unit such that the spring contact of the receptacle comes into elastic contact with the outer surfaces of the tab.