Terminal Accommodating Body with Universal Bus Bar Chambers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional terminal accommodating bodies require separate designs for different vehicle specifications, necessitating multiple configurations to accommodate varying electronic components and bus bars, leading to increased complexity and costs in management and assembly.
Innovation Solution
A terminal accommodating body with shared terminal accommodating chambers for both coupling terminals and bus bars, featuring inter-chamber inserting portions and holding portions that allow for the accommodation of both without obstruction, enabling flexible replacement and accommodation of coupling terminals and bus bar terminal portions within a common chamber.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate terminal accommodating bodies are prepared for each vehicle specification, then the coupling terminal can be properly accommodated, but the device complexity and management costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The terminal accommodating body is designed with common accommodating chambers that can universally accommodate both coupling terminals and bus bars. The holding portions are configured to hold either type of component, enabling a single terminal accommodating body design to serve multiple vehicle specifications without requiring separate configurations for each specification.
2Reliability
If separate terminal accommodating bodies are prepared for each vehicle specification, then the proper accommodation is ensured, but the manufacturing and management costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
By designing the terminal accommodating body with universal common accommodating chambers and holding portions that can accommodate both coupling terminals and bus bars, the invention enables a single standardized design to be manufactured for all vehicle specifications. This eliminates the need to produce and manage multiple different configurations, thereby reducing manufacturing complexity and management costs while ensuring proper accommodation through the standardized holding mechanisms.
3Reliability
If the terminal holding portion is designed to hold the coupling terminal, then the coupling terminal is securely held, but the bus bar accommodation is obstructed
Solution Approach 1:
The holding portions are designed with dynamic characteristics that allow them to adaptively hold different types of components. The holding structure can securely grip the coupling terminal when present, while simultaneously allowing the bus bar to be accommodated in the common chambers without obstruction. This dynamic design enables the same holding mechanism to function reliably for both component types across different vehicle specifications.
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AI summary
A terminal accommodating body includes a terminal accommodating chamber for each coupling terminal capable of accommodating a coupling terminal capable of being electrically connected to a terminal of an electronic component, and a terminal holding portion that holds the coupling terminal. In all the terminal accommodating chambers, in a plurality of common accommodating chambers in which the coupling terminal and one terminal portion in a one plate-like bus bar having a plurality of terminal portions electrically connectable to the terminal of the electronic component are capable of being replaced and accommodated, and a partition wall between the adjacent common accommodating chambers has an inter-chamber inserting portion into which the coupling portion is inserted in an accommodated state of the terminal portion to the common accommodating chamber, in order to accommodate a coupling portion in the common accommodating chamber.