Connector
AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
InventorTsutomu Hashimoto
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Abstract
A connector includes a connector housing (30) having a separation wall (33), through which a plurality of terminal fittings (20) penetrate, and a receptacle (51) configured to surround a group of the terminal fittings (20) projecting from the separation wall (33), a filling recess (55) configured to surround the terminal fittings (20) in the receptacle (51) and fill a potting agent (80) inside, and auxiliary reservoir portions (57) for the potting agent (80) formed to have a recessed shape on an inner peripheral surface side of the receptacle (51) while communicating with each filling recess (55).
Claims5
A connector, comprising:
- a connector housing including a separation wall with a substantially planar separation wall surface;
- terminal fittings constituting first and second terminal fitting groups penetrating through the separation wall and projecting from the separation wall surface;
- an external matter preventing rib between the first and second terminal fitting groups and projecting from the separation wall surface farther than the terminal fittings, the external matter preventing rib being configured to suppress intrusion of external matter into a space surrounding the terminal fittings, the external matter preventing rib having a first surface facing toward the first terminal fitting group, a second surface facing toward the second terminal fitting group and opposite first and second ends extending between the first and second surfaces;
- a receptacle projecting from the separation wall surface and surrounding the first and second terminal fitting groups and the external matter preventing rib, the receptacle forming a first filling recess surrounding the terminal fittings of the first terminal fitting group and accommodating a potting agent inside and a second filling recess surrounding the terminal fittings of the second terminal fitting group and accommodating the potting agent inside;
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- the receptacle further having first and second recesses opposed to one another and facing toward the first and second ends of the external matter preventing rib, the first and second recess forming first and second auxiliary reservoirs communicating with each of the filling recesses, back ends of the auxiliary reservoirs and back ends of the filling recesses being defined by the substantially planar separation wall surface.
A connector, comprising:
- a connector housing including a separation wall, a plurality of terminal fittings constituting two terminal fitting groups penetrating through the separation wall, and a receptacle configured to surround the terminal fitting groups projecting from the separation wall;
- an external matter preventing rib provided to project further than the terminal fitting between the two terminal fitting groups, the external matter preventing rib being configured to suppress the intrusion of external matter into the receptacle;
- a filling recess configured to surround the terminal fittings in the receptacle and fill a potting agent inside;
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- an auxiliary reservoir portion for the potting agent formed on an inner peripheral surface of the receptacle between the two terminal fitting groups, wherein
- a back end surface of the auxiliary reservoir portion constituting a surface on the separation wall side being at the same position as a back end surface of the filling recess constituting a surface of the separation wall side, the back end surface of the auxiliary reservoir portion and the back end surface of the filling recess being coplanar,
- the external matter preventing rib projecting from the separation wall in a height direction,
- the filling recess extending from the separation wall in the height direction of the external matter preventing rib and having a recess width in a width direction orthogonal to the height direction of the external matter preventing rib, and
- the auxiliary reservoir portion being formed as a recessed groove that extends from the separation wall in the height direction of the external matter preventing rib and has a groove width narrower than the recess width of the filling recess.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.