TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a connector used for a wire harness routed in an automobile, for example.

BACKGROUND ART

Conventionally, a connector attached to a terminal of a wire harness includes a plurality of connection terminals each provided at each of a plurality of wiring ends constituting the wire harness and a connector housing including a plurality of terminal housing chambers each housing and holding each of the plurality of connection terminals. The terminal housing chamber of the connector housing has a tubular shape whose four sides are surrounded by a peripheral wall part, thus needed is an operation of inserting the plurality of connection terminals provided at the wiring end into the terminal housing chamber one by one in manufacturing the connector, and such an operation causes a deterioration in operability.

In contrast, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2001-230038 (Patent Document 1), for example, proposed is a structure that a plate-like housing in which a plurality of groove-like terminal housing chambers are arranged side by side is adopted, and performed is an operation of inserting a plurality of connection terminals from above into the plurality of groove-like terminal housing chambers opened in an upper surface of the housing to increase the operability.

PRIOR ART DOCUMENTS

Patent Documents

Patent Document 1: Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2001-230038

SUMMARY

Problem to be Solved by the Invention

However, when such a groove-like terminal housing chamber is adopted, the upper surface of the terminal housing chamber is opened, thus stress tends to be concentrated on the electrical wiring extending from the back end side opening part of the terminal housing chamber in an assembly operation or in use. When an electrical wiring has a low strength, such as an extra-fine wiring, the strength of electrical wiring is hardly secured, and it is difficult to even adopt the groove-like terminal housing chamber in some cases.

The present invention is done on the background of the above circumstance, and a problem to be solved is to provide a connector having a novel structure capable of stably securing a strength of an electrical wiring extending from a terminal housing chamber even when a groove-like terminal housing chamber opened upward is adopted.

Means to Solve the Problem

A first embodiment of the present invention is a connector including: at least one plate-like housing body; a plurality of groove-like terminal housing chambers each provided at a front end side of the housing body in a length direction, opened in an upper surface of the housing body, and parallelly arranged to house a plurality of connection terminals provided at ends of a plurality of electrical wiring; an electrical wiring support part provided at a back end side of the housing body in a length direction to support the plurality of electrical wirings extending from a back end side opening part of the terminal housing chambers; a sheet-like reinforced member which is placed on an upper surface of the electrical wiring support part and the plurality of electrical wirings are fixed to in a parallel state; and a cover part overlapping with the upper surface of the housing body to cover the terminal housing chambers and sandwiching the sheet-like reinforced member between the cover part and the electrical wiring support part, wherein a positioning protrusion is provided on the upper surface of the electrical wiring support part or a lower surface of the cover part, and the sheet-like reinforced member has a positioning hole into which the positioning protrusion is fitted, and the positioning protrusion is fitted into the positioning hole to fix the sheet-like reinforced member to the upper surface of the electrical wiring support part.

Effects of the Invention

According to the present invention, provided is a connector capable of stably securing a strength of an electrical wiring extending from a terminal housing chamber even when a groove-like terminal housing chamber opened upward is adopted.

