Patent ID: 9246259
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: H01R

Claim Text:
1. A joint connector comprising: a connector housing that includes a plurality of terminal chambers segmented by a plurality of partitions; and at least two neighboring joint terminals that are housed in terminal chambers neighboring among the plurality of terminal chambers, respectively, wherein each of the neighboring joint terminals includes a wire-crimping portion with which a wire is connected, a terminal body housed in a terminal chamber among the plurality of terminal chambers, and a pair of first and second contact portions laterally extended outward from respective sides of the terminal body, the first contact portion of one of the neighboring joint terminals is electrically contacted with the second contact portion of another of the neighboring joint terminals in a slit that is formed on a partition among the plurality of partitions located between the neighboring joint terminals, the connector housing is provided with pairs of elastically deformable tabs, each of the pairs including two opposed deformable tabs and being provided in each of the plurality of terminal chambers, and the opposed deformable tabs contact with sidewalls of the terminal body of each of the neighboring joint terminals, respectively, by an elastic restoration behavior of the opposed deformable tabs, wherein the second contact portion of each of the neighboring joint terminals includes an upper contact tab and a lower contact tab that are located parallel and a gap is formed between the upper contact tab and the lower contact tab, and the first contact portion of the one of the neighboring joint terminals is wedged into the gap between the upper contact tab and the lower contact tab of the second contact portion of the other of the neighboring joint terminals.