US 6,982,379 B2 | ||
Automotive electrical connection box and a method of mounting it | ||
Yukinori Saka, Yokkaichi (Japan); Tooru Nakagawa, Yokkaichi (Japan); and Yoshito Oka, Yokkaichi (Japan) | ||
Assigned to Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., (Japan) | ||
Filed on Feb. 11, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/56,734. | ||
Claims priority of application No. 2004-036433 (JP), filed on Feb. 13, 2004. | ||
Prior Publication US 2005/0178576 A1, Aug. 18, 2005 | ||
Int. Cl. H01J 5/00 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 174—50 | 10 Claims |
1. An automotive electrical connection box, comprising:
an upper casing having an upper wall with an intermediate portion and a plurality of peripheral sides, at least one sloped
surface on the upper wall sloping down from the intermediate portion to at least one of the peripheral sides, an upper surrounding
wall extending down from the upper wall at the peripheral sides;
a lower casing having a bottom wall and a lower surrounding wall extending up from the bottom wall, a rib extending up from
the bottom wall inwardly from the lower surrounding wall, drainage holes being formed through the bottom wall between the
lower surrounding wall and the rib, portions of the bottom wall between the lower surrounding wall and the rib being sloped
down to the drainage holes; and
the upper casing being fit on the lower casing so that the upper surrounding wall fits between the lower surrounding wall
and the rib and defines a drainage path between the upper and lower surrounding walls for channeling water towards the drainage
holes, whereby water is kept away from areas of the bottom wall inward of the rib.
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