US 12,444,891 B2
Terminal fitting and connector
Shohei Mitsui, Mie (JP); Norihito Hashimoto, Mie (JP); Motoki Kubota, Mie (JP); Keisuke Kanemura, Mie (JP); Wataru Yamanaka, Mie (JP); Yusuke Ito, Mie (JP); and Kazuya Kobayashi, Mie (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP)
Appl. No. 17/915,323
Filed by SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 9, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/009110
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 28, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/199946, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-059381 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0208086 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 24/50 (2011.01); H01R 13/41 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 24/50 (2013.01) [H01R 13/41 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A terminal fitting comprising:
a tubular connection portion;
a locking protrusion that is provided so as to protrude from an outer circumferential surface side of the tubular connection portion, and is configured to be locked to a groove provided in a housing; and
a contact-stopper protrusion that is provided on the outer circumferential surface side of the tubular connection portion so as to protrude from mating edges that abut against each other in a circumferential direction thereof in the tubular connection portion, and is configured to come into contact with the housing and stop in place,
wherein, in a state where the tubular connection portion is inserted to a regular position in the housing, a surface of the contact-stopper protrusion opposite to a surface thereof that comes into contact with the housing and stops in place is not locked to the housing,
the mating edges each having at least one of a protruding portion and a recessed portion are closed with the protruding portion and the recessed portion engaging with each other, and
the contact-stopper protrusion protrudes from the protruding portion.