Patent ID: 9225098
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A splice box, comprising: a housing comprising chambers each partitioned with each of partition walls, and slits each provided at each of the partition walls; and splice terminals each comprising a wire connecting portion to be connected with a wire, a terminal body portion to be inserted into each of the chambers and thereby received in each of the chambers, a first contact portion protruding from a first side wall portion side of the terminal body portion and arranged at one of the slits adjacent to the first side wall portion, and a second contact portion protruding from a second side wall portion side of the terminal body portion and arranged at the other one of the slits adjacent to the second side wall portion, wherein in each pair of adjacent splice terminals received in adjacent chambers, the first contact portion of one of the splice terminals has contact with the second contact portion of the other of the splice terminals to thereby electrically connecting the adjacent splice terminals, the second contact portion comprises an upper contact piece portion and a lower contact piece portion and the first contact portion of the one of the splice terminals is intervened between the first contact piece portion and the second contact piece portion, each of the chambers is provided with a pair of elastic portions so contacting the first side wall portion and second side wall portion of each of the terminal body portions as to have an elastic deformation, and each of the elastic portions includes a deformation portion formed by a part of each of the partition walls and a contact protrusion portion protruding from the deformation portion to the chamber side.