| US 7,520,767 B2 | ||
| Joint member and joint connector for wire harness | ||
| Tatsuo Tamagawa, Mie (Japan); Hiroki Hirai, Mie (Japan); Yuuji Saka, Mie (Japan); Akinori Oishi, Mie (Japan); Mitsuhiro Hattori, Mie (Japan); and Eiji Kojima, Mie (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Mie (Japan); Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Mie (Japan); and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Aug. 08, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/500,458. | ||
| Application 11/500458 is a division of application No. 10/892380, filed on Jul. 16, 2004, granted, now 7,351,085. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2003-198297 (JP), filed on Jul. 17, 2003; application No. 2003-198298 (JP), filed on Jul. 17, 2003; application No. 2004-186130 (JP), filed on Jun. 24, 2004; and application No. 2004-202052 (JP), filed on Jul. 08, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0286826 A1, Dec. 21, 2006 | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. H01R 29/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 439—189 [439/77] | 11 Claims |
| 1. A joint connector for electrically connecting a plurality of electric wires contained in a wire harness with each other,
the joint connector comprising:
wire-side terminals fixed to ends of specified electric wires among the electric wires contained in the wire harness, the
wire-side terminals including on their tip end side female contacts in which male terminals are to be inserted in an axial
direction of the wire-side terminals;
an insulation housing that holds the wire-side terminals in a single layer such that the wire-side terminals adjacent to each
other in a single layer are approximately on the same plane, the insulation housing including terminal release portions in
which the female contacts of the wire-side terminals are released to the tip end side; and
a short-circuit member that short-circuits specified wire-side terminals among the wire-side terminals with each other,
wherein the short-circuit member includes:
a plurality of male terminal sections in a single layer that are to be inserted respectively in the female contacts of the
specified wire-side terminals through the terminal release portions of the insulation housing; and
a terminal linking section that links the male terminal sections to each other and electrically connects specified male terminal
sections with each other,
wherein the terminal linking section is formed from a flexible flat wiring member that includes a plurality of conductors
arranged on the same plane parallel to each other, and integrated by coating with an insulation coating layer, and
a plurality of terminal components are connected to the plurality of conductors and extend in a direction orthogonal to the
conductors and are arranged in a longitudinal direction of the plurality of conductors.
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