US 12,355,199 B2
Terminal cover
Shinji Hirano, Mie (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP)
Appl. No. 17/914,159
Filed by SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 8, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/008955
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 13, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/192958, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-057971 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0187853 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 4/70 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 4/70 (2013.01) 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A terminal cover comprising:
a terminal protector having an opening part that is open upward;
a wire protection part provided rearward continuously with the terminal protector; and
a lid joined to a front end of the wire protection part via a hinge, and configured to open and close the opening part from above,
wherein a latching wall including a latching boss is provided to extend upward on an upper surface of the wire protection part,
in a closed state in which the opening part is blocked off, the lid includes a protruding part protruding upward of the upper surface of the wire protection part, and a surrounding part provided continuously downward from the protruding part and widening outward from the protruding part,
the protruding part is provided with a latching part,
the lid is maintained in an open state in which the opening part is open, due to the latching wall abutting the protruding part, and the latching boss and the latching part latching together, and
in the open state, the latching part is covered by the latching wall so as to not be exposed externally, and the latching boss is covered by the surrounding part so as to not be exposed externally.