Patent ID: 9088118
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A joint connector, comprising: a housing including a plurality of terminal accommodating chambers; crimp terminals each insertable into each of the terminal accommodating chambers, each of the crimp terminals comprising a first engagement portion which is formed at one end in a direction orthogonal to a direction that each of the crimp terminals is inserted into each of the terminal accommodating chambers, and a second engagement portion which is formed at the other end in the direction orthogonal to the direction that each of the crimp terminals is inserted into each of the terminal accommodating chambers and has a shape engageable with the first engagement portion; partition walls each separating two of the terminal accommodating chambers which are adjacent to each other in a width direction orthogonal to a direction that the crimp terminals are inserted into the terminal accommodating chambers; and slits each formed in each of the partition walls from a port through the direction that the crimp terminals are inserted into the terminal accommodating chambers, wherein one of the crimp terminals and another one of the crimp terminals are individually inserted in adjacent two of the terminal accommodating chambers, and the first engagement portion formed on the one of the crimp terminals and the second engagement portion formed on the another one of the crimp terminals are engaged with each other for electrical connection of the two or more crimp terminals and located in one of the slits, wherein each terminal accommodating chamber is defined by a bottom wall of the housing and two partition walls of the partition walls, and the first engagement portion formed on the one of the crimp terminals and the second engagement portion formed on the another one of the crimp terminals which are engaged to each other share a same partition wall which is one of two partition walls of each terminal accommodating chamber.