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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[Detailed Description of the Invention]
[0001]
[Field of the Invention]The present invention relates to the connector device
used for the electric connection box mounted on an automobile, other electric
wiring boxes, etc.
[0002]
[Description of the Prior Art]In order to distribute the electric power from a
battery to each component, such as a lamp, and to supply electric power, the
electric connection box is mounted on the automobile. The housing 1 in which
Fig.7 showed the exploded perspective view of the conventional electric
connection box, and multiple slits 2 for busbar insertion were formed, It has a
plurality of busbars 3 which are inserted in the slit 2 for busbar insertion,
and perform power allocation, and the connector 5 inserted in a plurality of
connector areas 4 provided by the housing 1, respectively. In a connector, a
plurality of terminal (not shown) which contacts the terminal area 3a of the
busbar 3, and is connected is stored.
Two or more wire harness 6 connected to this terminal is pulled out from the
connector 5.
7 is an upper cover attached so that the upper part of the housing 1 may be
covered in order to prevent water, dust, etc. from adhering to the busbar 3.
This electric connection box performs power allocation by being fixed to the
vehicle body of an automobile via a bracket, a screw, etc.
[0003]

2. [Problem to be solved by the invention]Such an electric connection box has a
fixed fixing point to the housing 1 of the connector 5, and since the whole is
attached to a vehicle body where this fixed relation is maintained, the space of
the shape of flatness for exclusive use is needed for the vehicle body. The
electronic units for aiming at substantial safety and fullness of equipment
increase in number, and the space for installing these is needed for the vehicle
body. From such a thing, it is difficult to secure the flat space only for an
electric connection box, and a certain correspondence is needed.
[0004]The present invention is made in consideration of such a conventional
problem.
The purpose is to be able to perform attachment to a curved surface part and a
corner portion of a vehicle body used as a dead space, and for this to provide a
connector device in which efficient arrangement to a vehicle body is possible,
without needing flat space for exclusive use, even if it is a connector device
used for an electric connection box etc.
[0005]
[Means for solving problem]In order to achieve the above-mentioned object,
invention of Claim 1 is provided with the following.
A plurality of connectors by which an insertion wall which a terminal inserts in
was provided inside.
A flexible wiring board which is connected with a terminal after a connection
part of an end of a terminal has penetrated, and connects said plurality of
connectors.
A lid which is provided by each aforementioned connector and fixes the
circumference of a flexible wiring board on both sides of a flexible wiring
board between connectors.
[0006]In this structure, since a flexible flexible wiring board will be in
turgescence inside a connector when put between a lid and a connector, it can be
in a kind of hard state inside a connector. Since the flexible wiring board of
this turgescence is penetrated and the terminal has inserted in the insertion
wall of a connector, within a connector, it is supported satisfactorily and
functions as the usual connector similarly.
[0007]On the other hand, the flexible wiring board has flexibility as it is in
the outside of a connector, and the connector connected by the flexible wiring
board can follow in footsteps of bend of a flexible wiring board, and can be
moved freely. For this reason, a connector can be arranged in accordance with
the curved surface part and corner portion of a vehicle body, restrictions of
connector arrangement are lost, and the flexibility of arrangement is expanded.
[0008]Invention of Claim 2 is the invention according to claim 1, and the
plurality of the aforementioned flexible wiring board is arranged in the
vertical direction, The pattern of a partner flexible wiring board and the
pattern connected are formed in each flexible wiring board, and this pattern is
connected by the terminal inserted between flexible wiring boards.
[0009]Since a flexible wiring board is between the upper and lower sides and
conducts, when the flexible wiring board arranged up and down is connected by
the terminal inserted between them, A three-dimensional circuit can be cabled
and a complicated circuit can be formed easily, and the density within an
identical area increases and it can perform efficient cabling.
[0010]A plurality of connectors which invention of Claim 3 is the invention
according to claim 1 or 22, and were connected by the aforementioned flexible
wiring board are arranged in an electric connection box.
[0011]Since free movement is possible for the connector connected by the
flexible wiring board, even if it is an electric connection box by adopting this
connector as an electric connection box, the arrangement of it doubled with the
curved surface part and corner portion of the vehicle body is attained.
[0012]
[Mode for carrying out the invention]Fig.1 - Fig.5 are provided with the
following.
One embodiment of the present invention is shown, Fig.1 is a perspective view of
the essential part, and they are a plurality of connectors 8.
A plurality of terminals 9.
The flexible wiring board 10 which connects a plurality of connectors 8.

3. [0013]The connector 8 is molded into the approximately rectangular shape with
which the upper surface was opened wide, and the upper surface opened wide
serves as the loading slot 11 where the partner terminal from a mating connector
etc. is inserted. This connector 8 is provided with the sidewall portion 12 of
the 4th page, and the insertion wall 13 which forms the lower parts of the
sidewall portion 12 successively as shown in Fig.2, and the slit (not shown)
which the terminal 9 inserts in in the shape of penetration is formed in the
insertion wall 13. The sidewall portion 12 serves as rugged form, and can
support the terminal 9 which inserted in the insertion wall 13 by this.
[0014]As shown in Fig.3, the lid 15 is attached to the sidewall portion 12 of 1
in each connector 8 via the hinge region 13. The lid 15 is provided with the
bottom wall part 16 and the vertical-wall part 17 of the 4th page which rises
from the bottom wall part 16, and the sidewall portion 12 of the 4th page to
which the vertical-wall part 17 is extended in the direction of a lid from the
insertion wall 13 is abutted by rotating the lid 15 in the connector 8
direction, respectively. On the occasion of this abutment, by the sidewall
portion 12 and the vertical-wall part 17, the circumference of the flexible
wiring board 10 is put and the flexible wiring board 10 is held by turgescence
within the connector 8.
[0015]The lock part 18 is formed in the end of an opposite side with the hinge
region 14 in the lid 15, and this lock part 18 engages with it with the lock
receiving part 19 formed in the end to which the connector 8 opposed. Thereby,
the lid 15 is reliably locked to the connector 8.
[0016]The terminal 9 is provided with the following.
As shown in Fig.1, it is the connection part 20 of the lower part side.
The contact portion 21 formed successively by the upper part of the connection
part 20 in the shape of 2 **.
The connection part 20 penetrates the slit 22 (refer to Fig.5) formed in the
flexible wiring board 10, and is connected with the flexible wiring board 10 by
soldering. On the other hand, along with the sidewall portion 11 of the
connector 8, the contact portion 21 contacts a stretch and the partner terminal
inserted into the connector 8 from the loading slot 11, and conducts.
[0017]The flexible wiring board 10 has flexibility, as shown in Fig.5, multiple
patterns 23 are formed in the whole surface side, and the slit 22 of each
pattern 23 which the connection part 20 of the terminal 9 penetrates suitably is
formed in the position. This flexible wiring board 10 has become long, and as
shown in Fig.2, it connects a plurality of connectors 8 in accordance with that
length direction. Attachment of the connector 8 to the flexible wiring board 10
is performed the sidewall portion 12 of the connector 8, and by reaching and
putting the flexible wiring board 10 by the vertical-wall part 17 of the lid 15.
[0018]Next, the assembly procedure of this embodiment is described. First,
insert the terminal 9 in each connector 8, the insertion wall 13 of the
connector 8 is made to penetrate the connection part 20, and it supports. At
this time, the contact portion 21 of each terminal 9 is supported by unevenness
of the sidewall portion 12 of the connector 8. And the slit 22 of the flexible
wiring board 1 is made to penetrate the connection part 20 of the terminal 9
which penetrated the slit of the insertion wall 13, and the penetration end and
pattern 23 are connected by soldering.
[0019]Rotate the lid 15 after this soldering, the sidewall portion 12 of the
connector 8 is made to abut that vertical-wall part 17, engagement of the lock
part 18 and the lock receiving part 19 is carried out, and the lid 15 is fixed.
By this fixing, the circumference of the flexible wiring board 10 is put by the
vertical-wall part 17 of the lid 15, and the sidewall portion 12 of the
connector 8. The flexible wiring board 10 between which the circumference was
put will be in the turgescence pulled within the connector 8, and will be in the
state where the terminal 9 was supported firmly. Therefore, since the terminal 9
is supported by the insertion to the insertion wall 13 and it is supported by
the flexible wiring board 10 used as turgescence, it can contact the partner
terminal and fitness which were inserted into the connector 8.
[0020]In this structure, connector 8 lateral part of the flexible wiring board
10 has flexibility as it is, and the connector 8 connected by the flexible
wiring board 10 can follow in footsteps of bend of the flexible wiring board 10,

4. and can be moved freely. For this reason, the connector 8 can be arranged in
accordance with the curved surface part and corner portion of a vehicle body,
restrictions of arrangement are lost, and the flexibility of connector
arrangement is expanded.
[0021]By inserting the above structure in the connection box body (not shown) of
an electric connection box, restrictions of arrangement of an electric
connection box can be lost, an electric connection box can be arranged to the
crooked part of a vehicle body, and a corner portion, and an electric connection
box can be arranged easily.
[0022]Fig.6 shows another flexible wiring board 24. This flexible wiring board
24 is arranged at the lower layer of the flexible wiring board 10 shown in
Fig.5, and the pattern 25 of the direction orthogonal to the pattern 23 of the
flexible wiring board 10 is mainly formed. The slit 26 which the terminal 9
penetrates is formed in the pattern 25.
[0023]When arranging the flexible wiring boards 10 and 24 up and down, insert
the terminal 9 among these, make the slit of one of flexible wiring boards
penetrate one end of the terminal 9, solder, and. A slit is made to penetrate to
the flexible wiring board of another side, and the end of another side is
soldered to it. Using the connector 8 provided with the lid 15, at this time,
each flexible wiring board 10 and 24 is put between a both-ends portion by the
connector 8 and the lid 15.
[0024]Connector 8 inside of the flexible wiring boards 10 and 24 will be in
turgescence by this, and it can support the terminal 9 satisfactorily. On the
connector 8 outside, since the flexible wiring boards 10 and 24 have
flexibility, it can be bent freely and the flexibility of arrangement of a
connector is expanded. Thus, by arranging the two or more flexible wiring boards
10 and 24 up and down, three-dimensional cabling of a circuit can be performed
and a complicated circuit can be formed.
[0025]
[Effect of the Invention]According to invention of Claim 1, as described above,
when put between a lid and a connector, a flexible wiring board will be in
turgescence inside a connector, and it can support a terminal. The flexible
wiring board has flexibility as it is in the outside of a connector, and the
connector connected by the flexible wiring board can follow in footsteps of bend
of a flexible wiring board, and can be moved freely. For this reason, a
connector can be arranged in accordance with the curved surface part and corner
portion of a vehicle body, restrictions of connector arrangement are lost, and
the flexibility of arrangement is expanded.
[0026]Since according to invention of Claim 2 the flexible wiring board arranged
up and down conducts when connected by the terminal inserted between them, a
three-dimensional circuit can be cabled and can form a complicated circuit
easily, and. The density within an identical area increases and it can perform
efficient cabling.
[0027]According to invention of Claim 3, even if it is an electric connection
box by adopting a connector as an electric connection box since free movement is
possible when a plurality of connectors are connected by the flexible wiring
board, the arrangement doubled with the curved surface part and corner portion
of the vehicle body is attained.
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