US 12,261,393 B2
Seal member that extends into the cover surface of an electrical connector housing
Tsuyoshi Hamai, Makinohara (JP); Takatoshi Suzuki, Makinohara (JP); and Junya Yamamoto, Makinohara (JP)
Assigned to YAZAKI CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by YAZAKI CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/965,779.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-171073 (JP), filed on Oct. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0122279 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 13/52 (2006.01); H01R 13/422 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/5205 (2013.01) [H01R 13/422 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector, comprising:
a terminal fitting;
an electric wire connected to the terminal fitting;
a housing that includes an internal space in which the electric wire is routed;
an opening that connects the internal space with an outside of the housing;
a cover that includes a cover surface closing the opening and is inserted into the opening to isolate the internal space from the outside; and
a seal member that seals a gap between an opening inner wall of the opening and a peripheral edge of the cover; wherein
the seal member includes a body portion having an annular shape along the peripheral edge of the cover, an extending portion that extends from an end portion of the body portion on a side of the outside along the cover surface, and a protruding portion that protrudes in a direction of intersecting with an extending direction of the extending portion and extends from the extending portion along the cover surface,
the cover includes a recessed fitting portion into which the extending portion and the protruding portion of the seal member are fitted, and
the extending portion and the protruding portion are fitted into the fitting portion such that the extending portion and the protruding portion do not protrude out of a recess of the fitting portion.