Outlet socket
AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
InventorsAkihito Maegawa, Shinyu Nagashima
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Abstract
A socket body (20) including a plug socket terminal accommodation chamber (23) and a ground terminal accommodation chamber (24) below the plug socket terminal accommodation chamber (23). The ground terminal accommodation chamber (24) has an aperture (30) formed along a direction substantially orthogonal to an insertion direction of a mating plug and a vertical direction and the ground terminal (31) is accommodated through the aperture (30). A downwardly open draining hole (29) is formed on a periphery of the plug socket terminal accommodation chamber (23). A rib (36) is formed on a peripheral surface so that a distance between the rib (36) and the aperture (30) is shorter than a distance between the rib (36) and the draining hole (29).
Claims10
An outlet socket for a vehicle, comprising a socket body (20) with a plug socket terminal accommodation chamber (23) for accommodating a plug socket terminal (26);
- and a ground terminal accommodation chamber (24) disposed below said plug socket terminal accommodation chamber (23) and configured for accommodating a ground terminal (31), said ground terminal accommodation chamber (24) having an aperture (30) formed along a direction substantially orthogonal to an insertion direction of a mating plug and substantially orthogonal to a vertical direction, said ground terminal (31) being accommodated through said aperture (30);
- a downwardly open drain hole (29) formed through a peripheral wall of said plug socket terminal accommodation chamber (23);
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- a step (36) formed on a peripheral surface between said drain hole (29) and said aperture (30).
An outlet socket body (20) for a vehicle, said socket body (20) having opposite front and rear ends, a top, a bottom and first and second sides, said sock body (20) comprising:
- a first plug socket terminal accommodation chamber (23) in proximity to the top and the first side of the socket body (20), a first downwardly open drain hole (29) formed through a bottom wall of said first plug socket terminal accommodation chamber (23);
- a second plug socket terminal accommodation chamber (23) in proximity to the top and the second side of the socket body (20), a second downwardly open drain hole (29) formed through a bottom wall of said plug socket terminal accommodation chamber (23);
- a ground terminal accommodation chamber (24) disposed below said plug socket terminal accommodation chambers (23) and between the first and second drain holes (29), an aperture (30) extending into the ground terminal accommodation chamber (24) at the first side of the socket body (20);
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- a rib (36) projecting down from the bottom wall of said first plug socket terminal accommodation chamber (23) between said drain hole (29) and said aperture (30).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.