Patent ID: 7520767

Claim:
A joint connector for electrically connecting a plurality of electric wires contained in a wire harness with each other, the joint connector comprising: wire-side terminals fixed to ends of specified electric wires among the electric wires contained in the wire harness, the wire-side terminals including on their tip end side female contacts in which male terminals are to be inserted in an axial direction of the wire-side terminals; an insulation housing that holds the wire-side terminals in a single layer such that the wire-side terminals adjacent to each other in a single layer are approximately on the same plane, the insulation housing including terminal release portions in which the female contacts of the wire-side terminals are released to the tip end side; and a short-circuit member that short-circuits specified wire-side terminals among the wire-side terminals with each other, wherein the short-circuit member includes: a plurality of male terminal sections in a single layer that are to be inserted respectively in the female contacts of the specified wire-side terminals through the terminal release portions of the insulation housing; and a terminal linking section that links the male terminal sections to each other and electrically connects specified male terminal sections with each other, wherein the terminal linking section is formed from a flexible flat wiring member that includes a plurality of conductors arranged on the same plane parallel to each other, and integrated by coating with an insulation coating layer, and a plurality of terminal components are connected to the plurality of conductors and extend in a direction orthogonal to the conductors and are arranged in a longitudinal direction of the plurality of conductors.