Patent ID: 8500475
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A harness connector comprising: a first terminal housing with a plurality of first connector terminals aligned and accommodated therein; a second terminal housing with a plurality of second connector terminals aligned and accommodated therein, the second terminal housing being engaged with the first terminal housing in use, each of the first connector terminals being connected with a counterpart one of the second connector terminals; and a pressing member, wherein: when the first and second terminal housings are engaged with each other, the first and second connector terminals are alternately stacked in such a manner as to provide stack of a plurity of terminal pairs consisting of a different one of the first connector terminals and its counterpart second connector terminal; the first and second connector terminals of each terminal pair are pressed and fixed against each other by means of the pressing member and are electrically connected; and neighboring terminal pairs are electrically insulated from each other, wherein each of the first connector terminals has a first connecting portion to which a cable is connected in use, and all the first connecting portions are arranged in parallel; wherein each of the second connector terminals has a second connecting portion to which a cable is connected in use, and all the second connecting portions are arranged in parallel; and wherein the first and second terminal housings are engageable with each other in such a manner that an axis direction of the first connecting portions is not parallel but obliquely oriented to that of the second connecting portions.