Patent ID: 6582239
Filing Date: 2003-06-24
Classification: B60R,Y10S

Abstract:
An electrical connecting box for a vehicle, comprising:a common unit with a built-in standard circuit common to plural kinds of vehicles; and an exclusive unit with a built-in exclusive circuit peculiar to a specified kind of vehicle, the exclusive unit including: a plurality of module plates each having a plate body, a plurality of wire accommodating grooves defined by a plurality of partition walls formed on the plate body and a plurality of wire connecting pieces arranged in the wire accommodating grooves on selection in accordance with a predetermined lay-out of a circuit to be established in the module plates, the wire connecting pieces being respectively connected with wires at respective ends thereof or respective intermediate parts of the wires; a plurality of kinds of unit housings formed peculiarly to the specified kind of vehicle respectively, for retaining a stack of module plates; and a plurality of inter-layer wiring members penetrating among respective layers forming the stack of module plates thereby to connect the wire connecting pieces in the module plates with each other, establishing a desired circuit as a whole; wherein the exclusive unit is integrated with the common unit thereby to complete the electrical connecting box peculiar to the specified kind of vehicle.