Connector including wire insertion path formed by first groove and second groove and protrusion in first groove

A connector comprising:

• a terminal fitting physically and electrically connected to a terminal of an electric wire to form a terminal-equipped electric wire;
• and
• a housing configured to accommodate a plurality of the terminal-equipped electric wires, hold two adjacent electric wires side by side in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction thereof by an electric wire holding portion, and draw out each of the electric wires from the electric wire holding portion while keeping an arrangement state thereof, wherein
• the housing includes a housing body that accommodates the terminal-equipped electric wire from an insertion port, and a cover member that is assembled to the housing body to block the insertion port, and forms the electric wire holding portion by coupling a first holding portion of the housing body and a second holding portion of the cover member at an assembly completion position of the housing body and the cover member,
• the electric wire holding portion includes an electric wire insertion path which is a path for each electric wire in which the electric wire is inserted and held in the axial direction over an inside and outside of the housing, and formed by a first groove and a second groove joined in an assembling direction of the first holding portion and the second holding portion orthogonal to the axial direction,
• the two adjacent electric wire insertion paths are offset from each other in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction and the assembling direction, and are offset from each other in the assembling direction,
• the first groove is formed as an electric wire accommodation groove that accommodates the electric wire from an electric wire insertion port opened in the assembling direction,
• the second groove has a smaller volume than that of the first groove and is formed as a cover groove that covers the electric wire insertion port, and
• each of the first grooves has a protrusion protruding from each groove side wall and sandwiching the electric wire between the groove side walls.