System for reconfiguring connector cover and seal
AssigneeYazaki North America, Inc.
InventorDavid Kwang
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Abstract
In a wire harness connector body of the type having an end cover with a plurality of terminal openings and a mating seal having a corresponding plurality of terminal openings, a delete plug for insertion into a terminal opening in the cover such that it plugs that terminal opening against the insertion of a terminated wire. The delete plug includes a seal-plugging member which is inserted into a corresponding terminal opening in the seal to maintain the sealed nature of the connector. One or more delete plugs can be added to, moved around, or removed from the cover to reconfigure a basic cover and seal arrangement to accept different numbers or placement of terminated wires.
Claims13
In combination with a wire harness connector body of the type having a seal and cover for receiving a plurality of terminated wires, the cover having an inner end, an outer end and a plurality of terminal openings extending through the cover from the outer end to the inner end and adapted to have terminated wires inserted therethrough from the outer end, through the inner end and into the seal, the seal having terminal openings adapted to receive the terminated wires therethrough, an apparatus for reconfiguring the seal and cover, comprising:
- a delete plug having a body with a first end shaped to be inserted into a terminal opening in the cover from the inner end of the cover and a second end with a shoulder sized to prevent the plug body from being pushed out of the terminal opening of the cover from the inner end of the cover and out of the outer end of the cover;
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- a seal-plugging member extending from the second end of the body and adapted to be inserted into a corresponding terminal opening in the seal.
In combination with a seal and cover assembly fastened to a wire harness connector body with the seal sandwiched between the cover and the wire harness connector body, an inner end of the cover adjacent an outer end of the seal, the cover having a plurality of terminal openings therethrough and the seal having a plurality of corresponding terminal openings, an apparatus for reconfiguring the seal and cover assembly with respect to the available terminal openings capable of receiving terminated wires, comprising:
- one or more delete plugs mounted between the cover and the seal, each delete plug having a body removable and returnably inserted into one of the plurality of delete plug having a body removable and returnably inserted into one of the plurality of terminal openings in the cover from the inner end of the cover and a seal-plugging member inserted into one of the corresponding terminal openings in the seal from the outer end of the seal, wherein each delete plug body has a polarizing projection extending along one side of the body, the polarization projection received in a polarization notch in the terminal opening of the cover.
In an assembly comprising a wire harness connector body of the type having a seal and cover for receiving a plurality of terminated wires with the seal sandwiched between the cover and the wire harness connector body, an inner end of the cover adjacent an outer end of the seal, the cover having a plurality of terminal openings therethrough and the seal having a plurality of corresponding terminal openings therethrough, a method for reconfiguring the seal and cover, the method comprising the following steps:
- inserting a delete plug into a terminal opening in the cover from the inner end of the cover and further inserting a seal-plugging member of the delete plug into a corresponding terminal opening in the seal, thereby rendering the terminal opening in the cover and the corresponding terminal opening in the seal closed to the insertion of a terminated wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.