US 12,322,897 B2
Cable sealing plug with locking part
Carsten Fischer, Bensheim (DE); Roman Hildmann, Bensheim (DE); Maximilian Veihl, Bensheim (DE); and Markus Eckel, Bensheim (DE)
Assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed by TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed on Dec. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/547,717.
Claims priority of application No. 102020133029.4 (DE), filed on Dec. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0190510 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. F16L 5/10 (2006.01); H01R 13/52 (2006.01); B29C 45/14 (2006.01); G02B 6/38 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/5221 (2013.01) [H01R 13/5205 (2013.01); B29C 45/14639 (2013.01); F16L 5/10 (2013.01); G02B 6/3879 (2013.01); G02B 6/3893 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cable sealing plug, comprising:
a continuous cylindrical cable pass through opening having a diameter greater than a cable diameter of an electric cable extending through the cable pass through opening, and extending through the cable sealing plug in an axial direction;
a toroidal compression seal extending continuously around the cable pass through opening, the compression seal is configured to move in the axial direction and radially perpendicularly toward the center of the cable pass through opening from an uncompressed state in which an inner diameter of the compression seal is larger than the cable diameter to a compressed state in which an inner diameter of the compression seal is smaller than the cable diameter; and
an annular locking part extending continuously around the cable pass through opening and having a contact surface disposed adjacent the compression seal, wherein the locking part and the compression seal are a unitary component and move together in the axial direction when a sliding guide extending circumferentially around and formed in a surface of the locking part and a bayonet guide formed in a connector housing with which the annular locking part engages are rotated relative to each other around a common axis to move the annual locking part axially relative to the connector housing to compress the compression seal against the contact surface as a result of the compression seal being displaced radially as a result of the rotation.