To evade damage to an electric wire conductor when the electric wire conductor is connected to a terminal of a connector, and secure the stability and reliability of conductive contact of the conductor and the terminal.
Each terminal 12 of the connector 10 is provided with a conductor connection part 14 having a pair of arm parts 14a, 14b protruding to the outside of the main body 16. A connection member 18 is provided with a plurality of pairs of connectors 44, 46 which can pinch the electric wire conductor C between both, and provided with a pair of supports 48, 50 respectively which support a pair of connectors 44, 46 that are paired up with the supports respectively. The connection member 18 is assembled to the main body 16 in such a state that the electric wire conductor C is pinched between pinching parts 54 of the pair of connectors 44, 46. At this time, the pinching part 54 of the pair of the connectors 44, 46 are fitted between the both arm parts 14a, 14b of the electric wire connection part 14 of the terminal 12 while having those arm parts 14a, 14b elastically deformed, and by that, the electric wire conductor C is indirectly connected to the terminal 12 under an elastic restoring force of the both arm parts 14a, 14b.
Jun Tsuruta
Tetsuro Shimada
Masaya Nishiyama
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