US 12,119,586 B2
Connector
Teruo Hara, Yokkaichi (JP); Masaaki Tabata, Yokkaichi (JP); Hajime Kawase, Yokkaichi (JP); Hajime Matsui, Yokkaichi (JP); Hiroki Kobayashi, Yokkaichi (JP); Kenji Makino, Yokkaichi (JP); Hiroshi Kobayashi, Okazaki (JP); and Takeshi Amakawa, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Mie (JP); SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP); SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Appl. No. 17/617,506
Filed by AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokkaichi (JP); SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Yokkaichi (JP); SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
PCT Filed Jun. 1, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/021653
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 8, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/250740, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-109702 (JP), filed on Jun. 12, 2019; and application No. 2019-155818 (JP), filed on Aug. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0224044 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/58 (2006.01); H01R 13/502 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/582 (2013.01) [H01R 13/502 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector comprising:
a terminal connected to a front end portion of an electric wire;
a housing in which the terminal is housed;
a base portion on which the electric wire extending rearward from a portion of the housing that has the terminal therein is disposed; and
a cover member that is adjacent to the base portion and movable between a first position in which the cover member covers the base portion and a second position in which the cover member is away from and covers the base portion,
the cover member having a facing surface that is opposite the base portion when the cover member is in the first position and including a wire pressing portion on the facing surface, the wire pressing portion pressing the electric wire disposed on the base portion toward the base portion when the cover member is in the first position,
wherein the cover member includes at least two cover members that are disposed to sandwich the base portion and the at least two cover members include a first cover member and a second cover member.