Patent ID: 8002569
Filing Date: 2011-08-23
Classification: H01H

Abstract:
1. An electric connection box comprising: a box body; and an attachment portion for attaching an electric component on a surface of the box body, the attachment portion includes a plurality of through holes arranged on the surface of the box body for passing through terminals extending from the electric component, a tube standing from the surface of the box body for receiving the electric component into an inside of the tube, a plurality of openings passing through the tube and arranged with a space along a circumferential direction of the tube, and a plurality of holding portions provided in the openings and holding the electric component to the tube by pressing the electric component into the inside of the tube, wherein each of the holding portions includes an arm and a protrusion projecting toward the inside of the tube from another end of the arm, one end of the arm continues to an inner edge of the tube away from the surface of the box body, and the other end thereof is formed with a free end; and the holding portions flex outwardly when the electronic component is received into the inside of the tube and is in a final connected state, such that a restoring force of the arm holds the electric component to the tube.