Connector
AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
InventorToshifumi Miyamoto
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Abstract
A grommet (30) has a wire pull-out part (32) that extends at an angle to a direction in which a female housing (10) fits to a mating male housing (90). Wires pulled out from the female housing (10) are inserted into the electric wire pull-out part (32). A locking hole (35) is formed on the grommet (30) near the wire pull-out part (32) and can be fit on a locking projection (11) on the female housing (10). A grommet cover (50) has a lid (51) that can be opened and closed. The lid (51) has a convex grommet-engaging portion (52) that engages the grommet (30) between the locking hole (35) and the wire pull-out part (32) when the lid part (51) is closed thus preventing a periphery of the locking hole (35) from deforming in a direction in which the wire pull-out part (32) shakes.
Claims6
A connector comprising:
- a housing with opposite front and rear ends and side walls extending between the ends, a locking projection projecting outwardly in a projecting direction on one of the side walls of said housing, a grommet-receiving concavity formed between the locking projection and the rear end of the housing, the grommet-receiving concavity including a step extending substantially in the projecting direction;
- a rubber grommet substantially covering the side walls and the rear end of said housing, a locking hole formed through the grommet and being fit on the locking projection of the housing, the grommet being formed with an elongated tubular wire pull-out part transversely extending from the rear end of the housing and projecting substantially parallel to the projecting direction of locking projection, portions of the grommet between the wire pull-out part and the locking hole being nested in the grommet-receiving concavity;
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- a hard grommet cover covering an outer surface of said grommet, said grommet cover having a lid that can be moved between open and closed states with respect to said grommet, said lid having a convex grommet-engaging projection that is aligned with and nested in the grommet-receiving concavity and holds the portions of the grommet in the grommet-receiving concavity and against the step when the lid is closed for preventing a periphery of said locking hole from deforming in a direction transverse to said wire pull-out part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.