US 12,308,561 B2
Connector including abutted section forming pair with abutting section of mating fitting space to align center of connector with center of mating fitting space
Katsuya Nakano, Shizuoka (JP); and Takashi Sone, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to YAZAKI CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/955,448.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-171274 (JP), filed on Oct. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0119971 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 13/52 (2006.01); H01R 13/42 (2006.01); H01R 13/629 (2006.01); H01R 13/639 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/5202 (2013.01) [H01R 13/42 (2013.01); H01R 13/629 (2013.01); H01R 13/639 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector comprising:
a terminal fitting that is physically and electrically connected to a mating terminal fitting arranged in a mating fitting space;
a housing that includes a fitting wall fitted into the mating fitting space through an insertion port in a housing insertion direction, and a terminal accommodating section that accommodates the terminal fitting in a terminal accommodating chamber in the terminal accommodating section and is inserted into the mating fitting space together with the fitting wall; and
an annular or tubular elastically deformable sealing member that fills an annular or tubular gap between an outer peripheral surface of the fitting wall and an inner peripheral surface of the mating fitting space in a circumferential direction at a fitting completion position of the fitting wall and the mating fitting space where positions of axial centers of the fitting wall and the mating fitting space are aligned with each other; and
a retaining member that is held by the terminal accommodating section at a mounting completion position with respect to the terminal accommodating section and holds, in the terminal accommodating chamber, the terminal fitting inserted into the terminal accommodating chamber in a terminal insertion direction that is the same as the housing insertion direction, the retaining member blocks movement of the terminal fitting with respect to the terminal accommodating section in a terminal removal direction opposite to the terminal insertion direction at the mounting completion position, wherein
the housing includes a plurality of abutted sections that abut on an abutting section on an inner peripheral surface side of the mating fitting space at the fitting completion position,
each of the abutted sections are provided at a respective one of at least three locations that are spaced away from each other, each of the abutted sections together with the abutting section that forms a pair with the abutted section, and is formed in such a way that a distance from the axial center of the fitting wall to a contact position between each of the abutted sections and the abutting section is the same as a distance from the axial center of the mating fitting space to the contact position, and
the abutted section abuts on the abutting section provided on an annular tapered surface at a peripheral edge of the insertion port of the mating fitting space at the fitting completion position.