Patent 8192222 was granted and assigned to Yazaki on June, 2012 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A connector includes plurality of terminal fittings, a terminal holding member for holding the plurality of terminal fittings, and an electric wire holding member which is attached to the terminal holding member and holds plural electric wires. The electric wire holding member has a plurality of electric wire holding parts which hold ends of the plurality of electric wires at the same spacing as intervals between the plurality of terminal fittings and also are arranged in parallel with space in a longitudinal direction of the plurality of terminal fittings, and an exposure part for exposing exposed portions of core wires of the plurality of electric wires to the outside in order to connecting the exposed portions to the plurality of terminal fittings.