Patent ID: 7614917

Claim:
A method for connecting an electric wire and an electronic-component incorporating unit, the electric wire having an electric-wire side terminal in a middle of the electric wire in an electric-wire direction; the electronic component incorporating unit comprising a unit body including a case having an electronic-component housing concave portion and a fitting-connection concave portion and an electronic component housed in said electronic-component housing concave portion, wherein a first connecting portion connecting to the unit body is provided in said fitting-connection concave portion; and a cover member having an electric wire housing portion held on said electric wire so as to overlie an area of said electric-wire side terminal and a cover side fitting part to be fitted in said fitting-connection concave portion, the method comprising: first, assembling said cover member with said electric wire having the electric-wire side terminal to form a cover-assembled wire; and second, fitting said cover-assembled wire in said fitting-connection concave portion while simultaneously connecting said first connecting portion to said electric wire side terminal; wherein said electric-wire side terminal includes a first electric contact directly connected to a conductor of the electric wire, a second electric contact adapted to be connected to the first connecting portion, and a secured part that is adapted to be secured to the cover member.