Patent ID: 6383001
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: B60J

Abstract:
A modular connector for attaching an interior equipment of a vehicle onto an interior wall member covering an inner face of a vehicle body panel and for supplying electric power to the interior equipment, comprising:a connector member attached onto the interior wall member, and provided with a through hole and a first electric wire for supplying the electric-power to the interior equipment; a bracket member provided with the interior equipment and a tube-shaped body through which a second electric wire is led out from the interior equipment, the tube-shaped body being inserted into the through hole to engaged with the connector member to electrically connect the first and second electric wires; a wire holder protruded from an outer peripheral face of the tube-shaped body and extending in an axial direction of the tube-shaped body, for holding the second electric wire; a first engagement member arranged in a portion defined as a spatial region surrounded by the wire holder, the outer peripheral face of the tube-shaped body, and a tangent line connecting a ridge portion of the wire holder and the outer peripheral face of the tube-shaped body; and a second engagement member provided in a circumferential portion of the through hole of the connector member, for being engaged with the first engaging member to retain the bracket member onto the connector member.