Patent ID: 7802992

Claim:
A rotary connector for electrically connecting wires of two relatively rotating connection target members, comprising: (a) a ring-shaped outside terminal having a circular inner circumference portion and connected to the wire of one connection target member; (b) a ring-shaped inside terminal having a circular outer circumference portion, which is concentric with the inner circumference portion of the ring-shaped outside terminal, and connected to the wire of the other connection target member; and (c) a rotatable ring-shaped connection terminal electrically connecting the ring-shaped outside terminal and the ring-shaped inside terminal, and the ring-shaped connection terminal is positioned along the axial direction by insulators alternately superimposed on the ring shaped outside terminal and the ring-shaped inside terminal; wherein (d) the ring-shaped connection terminal elastically deforms along a radial direction thereof, and an outer circumference portion of the ring-shaped connection terminal abuts the inner circumference portion of the ring-shaped outside terminal and the outer circumference portion of the ring-shaped inside terminal.