US 12,176,692 B2
Electrical junction box
Kazuki Kobayashi, Kakegawa (JP); Kohei Toyoshima, Kakegawa (JP); Kenji Segawa, Kakegawa (JP); Naoki Tozuka, Kakegawa (JP); and Hiroyuki Yokoyama, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to YAZAKI CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by YAZAKI CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/994,563.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-194469 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0170679 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. H02G 3/08 (2006.01)
CPC H02G 3/081 (2013.01) 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical junction box comprising:
a body having an accommodation space therein;
a first cover pivotably attached around a pivot shaft of the body, the first cover being configured to open and close and to cover a part of the accommodation space;
a second cover attached to the body, the second cover being configured to open and close and to cover another part of the accommodation space; and
a conductor portion configured to transmit electric power supplied from an outside of the body, wherein
the first cover includes an interfering portion configured to move around the pivot shaft in accordance with pivoting of the first cover when the first cover is being opened or closed,
the second cover includes an interfered portion that blocks the first cover from opening, by being arranged on a movement locus of the interfering portion, when the second cover is in a closed state, and not when the second cover is in an open state, and
the conductor portion includes a portion arranged in the part of the accommodation space and to be isolated from the outside by the first cover.
 
7. An electrical junction box comprising:
a body having an accommodation space therein;
a first cover pivotably attached around a pivot shaft of the body, the first cover being configured to open and close and to cover a part of the accommodation space;
a second cover attached to the body, the second cover being configured to open and close and to cover another part of the accommodation space; and
a conductor portion configured to transmit electric power supplied from an outside of the body, wherein
the first cover includes an interfering portion configured to move around the pivot shaft in accordance with pivoting of the first cover when the first cover is being opened or closed,
the second cover includes an interfered portion to be arranged on a movement locus of the interfering portion when the second cover is in a closed state, and not arranged on the movement locus when the second cover is in an open state,
the conductor portion includes a portion arranged in the part of the accommodation space and to be isolated from the outside by the first cover,
the body includes a receiving portion opened to receive the interfering portion when the first cover is being opened, and
the interfered portion of the second cover is to be arranged at an opening portion of the receiving portion when being in the closed state, and not to be arranged at the opening portion when in the open state.
 
8. An electrical junction box comprising:
a body having an accommodation space therein;
a first cover pivotably attached around a pivot shaft of the body, the first cover being configured to open and close and to cover a part of the accommodation space;
a second cover attached to the body, the second cover being configured to open and close and to cover another part of the accommodation space; and
a conductor portion configured to transmit electric power supplied from an outside of the body, wherein
the first cover includes an interfering portion configured to move around the pivot shaft in accordance with pivoting of the first cover when the first cover is being opened or closed,
the second cover includes an interfered portion to be arranged on a movement locus of the interfering portion when the second cover is in a closed state, and not arranged on the movement locus when the second cover is in an open state,
the conductor portion includes a portion arranged in the part of the accommodation space and to be isolated from the outside by the first cover, and
the second cover includes a guide portion configured to guide an electric wire routed outside the accommodation space.