US 12,420,652 B2
Connection terminal
Kazutaka Uki, Kakegawa (JP); Takahiro Syouda, Susono (JP); and Kenji Yamada, Susono (JP)
Assigned to YAZAKI CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/873,729.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-123578 (JP), filed on Jul. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0031879 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 13/02 (2006.01); B60L 53/16 (2019.01); B60L 53/18 (2019.01); B60L 53/302 (2019.01); H01R 13/502 (2006.01); H01R 13/52 (2006.01)
CPC B60L 53/16 (2019.02) [B60L 53/18 (2019.02); H01R 13/502 (2013.01); H01R 13/521 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connection terminal comprising:
a terminal connecting portion configured to be electrically connected to a counterpart terminal;
an electric wire connecting portion configured to be electrically connected to an electric wire;
a holding portion provided between the terminal connecting portion and the electric wire connecting portion;
a sealed space formed in the holding portion;
a latent heat storage material and a gas sealed in the sealed space;
a sealing hole communicating the sealed space with a space outside the connection terminal; and
a plug member disposed in the sealing hole and configured to block the sealing hole,
wherein the connection terminal comprises a first member integrally formed with the terminal connecting portion and a second member integrally formed with the electric wire connecting portion, the first member and the second member being joined with each other,
wherein a first concave portion is formed in a joining surface of the first member with the second member and a second concave portion is formed in a joining surface of the second member with the first member, and
wherein the first concave portion and the second concave portion together define the sealed space.