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US 12,567,696 B2Granted
Connector assembly
AssigneeTyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
InventorsDalei (Otto) Chen, Hongbo (Daniel) Zhang
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Abstract
A connector assembly includes a housing having a flange along a circumferential direction, the flange has a groove spaced radially from the housing, and a sealing element disposed in the groove and forming a seal between the flange and a panel that has an opening receiving the housing. The sealing element is pressed against the panel when the housing partially passes through the opening of the panel.
Claims21
A connector assembly, comprising:
- a housing having a flange along a circumferential direction, the flange has a groove spaced radially from the housing;
- and
- a sealing element forming a seal between the flange and a panel that has an opening receiving the housing, the sealing element has a diamond-shaped cross-section and is pressed against the panel when the housing partially passes through the opening of the panel, one vertex of opposite vertices of the diamond-shaped cross-section is disposed in the groove, when the sealing element is pressed against the panel, the other of the opposite vertices is compressed into a flat shape and the one vertex disposed in the groove maintains a non-compressed shape.
A connector assembly, comprising:
- a housing having a flange along a circumferential direction and a plurality of resilient arms extending obliquely with respect to a longitudinal direction from the housing toward the flange, the flange has a groove spaced radially from the housing;
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- a sealing element forming a seal between the flange and a panel that has an opening receiving the housing, the sealing element has a diamond-shaped cross-section and is pressed against the panel when the housing partially passes through the opening of the panel, one vertex of opposite vertices of the diamond-shaped cross-section is disposed in the groove, when the sealing element is pressed against the panel, the other of the opposite vertices is compressed into a flat shape and the one vertex disposed in the groove maintains a non-compressed shape, the panel is located between a plurality of free ends of the resilient arms and the flange.
A connector assembly, comprising:
- a housing having a flange along a circumferential direction, the flange has a groove spaced radially from the housing;
- and
- a sealing element disposed in the groove and forming a seal between the flange and a panel that has an opening receiving the housing, the sealing element has a diamond-shaped cross-section and is pressed against the panel when the housing partially passes through the opening of the panel, when the sealing element is pressed against the panel, one vertex of opposite vertices of the diamond-shaped cross-section is compressed into a flat shape, the one vertex compressed into the flat shape faces the panel, when the sealing element is pressed against the panel, the shape of the one vertex changes from a conical shape when uncompressed to the flat shape when compressed, and the other of the opposite vertices maintains a non-compressed shape when the sealing element is pressed against the panel and the diamond-shaped cross-section is compressed, the conical shape of the one vertex has a base at an end of the conical shape and an apex at the other end of the conical shape, the conical shape of the one vertex tapers from the base to the apex.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.