# US 8,770,989 B2 · Electronic control device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,770,989 B2 - Document ID: US8770989B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 13/609,684 - Filed: 2012-09-11 - Published: 2013-03-21 - Granted: 2014-07-08 - Earliest claimed: 2011-09-21 - Assignees: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. - Applicants: Hironori Ohhashi; Yuichi Yanagisawa - Inventors: Hironori Ohhashi; Yuichi Yanagisawa - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8770989B2 ## CPC - H01R 13/5202: {Sealing means between parts of housing or between housing part and a wall, e.g. sealing rings} - H05K 5/0069: {having connector relating features for connecting the connector pins with the PCB or for mounting the connector body with the housing} - H01R 12/724: {containing contact members forming a right angle} - H01R: ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS - H05K: PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS ## Abstract An electronic control device has a circuit board to which, at one side thereof, a connector is fixed; a housing having a pair of connector sandwiching members that sandwich the connector, a part of the connector being exposed to an outside of the housing and a remaining part of the connector and the circuit board being housed in a watertight space of the housing, and one of the connector sandwiching members being set to be higher in rigidity than the other; a seal portion filled with a sealant; and a shift suppression unit having a protruding portion formed at one side of the higher-rigidity connector sandwiching member and the connector and a hollow portion formed at the other side The shift suppression unit suppresses a shift of the connector with respect to the housing by fitting of the protruding portion and the hollow portion together. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An electronic control device comprising: a circuit board to which, at one side thereof, a connector is fixed; a housing having a pair of connector sandwiching members that sandwich the connector in a thickness direction, a part of the connector being exposed to an outside of the housing and a remaining part of the connector and the circuit board being housed in a watertight space of an inside of the housing, and one of a pair of the connector sandwiching members being set to be higher in rigidity than the other; a seal portion formed at a fitting surface portion between periphery edges of a pair of the connector sandwiching members and at a fitting surface portion between an outer peripheral surface of the connector and an inner peripheral surface of the housing, the seal portion being filled with a sealant; and a shift suppression unit having fitting portions that are provided at the higher-rigidity connector sandwiching member and at the connector, the shift suppression unit suppressing a shift of the connector with respect to the housing by fitting of the fitting portions each other; wherein the fitting portions of the shift suppression unit is a protruding portion formed at one side of the higher-rigidity connector sandwiching member and the connector and a hollow portion formed at the other side; wherein the shift suppression unit functions as a guide part when fixing the connector to the housing by the fact that the protruding portion is fitted in the hollow portion with a predetermined gap provided between the protruding portion and the hollow portion; and wherein the predetermined gap between the protruding portion and the hollow portion is set to be smaller than a seal width of the seal portion filled with the sealant. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The electronic control device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: when the predetermined gap between the protruding portion and the hollow portion is A, the seal width of the seal portion filled with the sealant is B, and a required minimum seal width at the seal portion is C, A, B and C satisfy a relationship of “(B−A)