US 12,451,625 B2
Device connector
Masaaki Yoshikawa, Mie (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP)
Filed by SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP)
Filed on Dec. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/082,234.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-214381 (JP), filed on Dec. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0208056 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 9/24 (2006.01); H01R 9/22 (2006.01); H01R 13/502 (2006.01); H01R 13/52 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 9/2416 (2013.01) [H01R 9/223 (2013.01); H01R 13/502 (2013.01); H01R 13/5202 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device connector, comprising:
a terminal block including a resin housing having a hollow housing portion and three or more terminals each having a connecting portion; and
a connector cover detachably mounted to cover a first opening of one end side of the hollow housing portion,
the hollow housing portion having an inner peripheral surface including a first partial inner peripheral surface and a second partial inner peripheral surface facing the first partial inner peripheral surface,
the three or more terminals being supported while being partially covered by the resin housing with the respective connecting portions located in the hollow housing portion,
the three or more connecting portions projecting from the first partial inner peripheral surface toward the second partial inner peripheral surface while being arranged at intervals in an arrangement direction intersecting a penetration direction of the hollow housing portion in the hollow housing portion,
the connector cover including a cover body portion, an inserting portion to be inserted into the hollow housing portion, a resin cover portion having a plurality of separation walls extending from the inserting portion toward a second end side of the hollow housing portion and a sealing ring configured to contact the inner peripheral surface of the hollow housing portion by being mounted on an outer periphery of the inserting portion,
the plurality of separation walls respectively extending further toward a second opening of the second end side of the hollow housing portion than the connecting portions at positions for partitioning the three or more connecting portions and overlapping from base ends to tips of the three or more connecting portions in a projecting direction of the connecting portions, and
the resin cover portion further including first ribs extending from first end parts of the plurality of separation walls located on base end sides of the connecting portions and near the second opening of the second end side of the hollow housing portion along the first partial inner peripheral surface and second ribs extending from second end parts of the plurality of separation walls located on tip sides of the connecting portions and near the second opening of the second end side of the hollow housing portion along the second partial inner peripheral surface.