Patent ID: 7393222
Filing Date: 2008-07-01
Classification: B60R,H01R

Abstract:
1. A rotatable connector comprising: a stator having an outer cylindrical portion; a rotor having an inner cylindrical portion and rotatably supported by the stator; three or more flat cables received in an annular space defined between the outer cylindrical portion and the inner cylindrical portion, a winding direction of each flat cable being halfway reversed, and opposite ends of each flat cable being fixed to the stator and the rotor, respectively; and a holder rotatably disposed in the annular space and having three or more openings through which the reversed portions of the flat cables pass, wherein a width in the circumferential direction of a first opening among the three or more openings is set smaller than a width in the circumferential direction of a second opening different from the first opening, and a bending strength of the flat cable passing through the first opening is set greater than that of the other flat cables passing through the openings other than the first opening.