Patent ID: 6354854
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
A vehicle-mounted rotary connector, comprising:a pair of housings rotatably coupled to each other; plural flexible cables accommodated such that the flexible cables can be wound up and unwound in a ring-shaped cable-accommodating space formed between the pair of housings, the flexible cables fixed to the pair of housings at both ends thereof; and a moving member rotatably accommodated in the ring-shaped cable-accommodating space to reverse a winding direction of the flexible cables; wherein the moving member is formed with plural openings through which reversed sections of the flexible cables pass, and a width of at least one opening in a circumferential direction is larger than a width of other openings, and wherein, among the plural flexible cables, a conductor connected to a vehicle-mounted air bag circuit is carried only in a flexible cable passing through the opening of a larger width.