Flexible Wiring Connector Guide Pull-Through Engagement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Flexible wiring members with lack of rigidity are difficult to connect effectively using conventional methods that rely on squeezing, resulting in poor workability.
Innovation Solution
A connector device with a housing and connection guide that allows the wiring member to be easily connected by pulling the wire part through a slit, enabling the terminal to engage with an electrode part without requiring deformation or tools.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the wiring member is made flexible without rigidity, then the wiring member becomes more adaptable to routing, but the wiring member becomes difficult to connect and squeeze between components
Solution Approach 1:
The connector is divided into distinct functional components: a housing part that provides structural support, a connection guide part that directs the wiring member, and an electrode part that receives the terminal. This segmentation allows the flexible wiring member to be guided through specific paths rather than requiring direct squeezing, maintaining adaptability while improving connectability.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection guide part acts as an intermediary between the flexible wiring member and the electrode part. It receives the wiring member from the housing part and guides it into proper engagement with the electrode, mediating the connection process for flexible wires that cannot be directly squeezed into place.
2Strength
If conventional squeezing connection method is used, then rigid wiring members can be securely connected, but flexible wiring members deform and cannot be properly connected
Solution Approach 1:
The connector design accommodates dynamic flexibility of the wiring member through the connection guide part, which adapts to the flexible wire's movement and routing while maintaining secure engagement with the electrode part, unlike rigid squeezing methods that require fixed positioning.
Solution Approach 2:
Different parts of the connector have specialized functions: the housing part provides structural containment, the connection guide part specifically handles the flexible wiring member routing, and the electrode part provides electrical engagement. This local specialization allows each component to optimize for its specific function rather than relying on overall rigidity.
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AI summary
Provided is a connector device in which even a flexible wiring member can easily connect to a connector and in which an improvement in workability can be achieved. The present invention comprises a wiring member and a connector, wherein: the wiring member has a wire-shaped electric wire part and a terminal part which serves as a to-be-engaged part disposed at the tip end side of the electric wire part; the connector has an electrode part with which the terminal part engages in an insertable/removable manner, a housing which includes an accommodation part accommodating the electrode part, and a connection guide part which is provided to the housing; and, in a state in which the terminal part is disposed on an entrance/exit port side of the housing, the electric wire part is disposed at a draw-out port side of the housing, and a drawn-out part of the electric wire part, which is drawn out from the housing, has been formed, the connection guide part makes it possible for the terminal part to be introduced to and engage with the electrode part from the entrance/exit port by pulling the drawn-out part in the direction opposite the terminal part.