Patent ID: 8137116

Claim:
A ground joint connector provided in a wire harness to collectively connect a plurality of grounding wires included in the wire harness, to a ground site provided on a wall surface inside a vehicle, the ground connector comprising: a plurality of wire terminals to be attached to respective terminal ends of the grounding wires; a grounding conductor which includes a plurality of wire-side terminal portions each having a shape capable of being fitted to a corresponding one of the wire terminals in a specific terminal fitting direction, and a ground-side terminal portion having a shape capable of being connected to the ground site while being fixed onto the wall surface, the wire-side terminal portions being aligned in a direction approximately perpendicular to the terminal fitting direction and parallel to the wall surface and integrally joined to the ground-side terminal portion; and a connector housing which holds the grounding conductor and includes a plurality of terminal receiving chambers each having an opening oriented in one direction parallel to the terminal fitting direction and adapted to receive the wire terminals inserted into the terminal receiving chamber through the opening thereof, and a plurality of terminal locking portions adapted to lock the wire terminals inserted into the terminal receiving chambers respectively, wherein the connector housing accommodates the wire-side terminal portions in the respective terminal receiving chambers so as to allow the terminal locking portions to lock the respective wire terminals which are inserted into the respective terminal receiving chambers and fitted with the wire-side terminal portions respectively, and holds the grounding conductor so as to make the ground-side terminal portion protrude to an outside of the connector housing directed oppositely to the openings of the terminal receiving chambers.