IP Library Granted Patent US 7,785,128
Granted Patent B2
US 7,785,128 · App. 12/292,515 · Granted Aug 31, 2010

Connector

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Patent No.
US 7,785,128
App. No.
12/292,515
Granted
Aug 31, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

The connector including the first and second connector housings is provided with means for draining water entered inside. At an end part of the second connector housing, situated at the front of an insertion direction of the first connector housing into the second connector housing, the second connector housing includes: a connecting part which connects a tube part and a body part of the second connector housing to each other; and a through hole which is adjacent to the connecting part and penetrates through the tube part to communicate a first space, which is outside the body part and inside the tube part, and the outside of the tube part to each other, wherein a facing surface of the connecting part facing the first connector housing is provided with an inclined surface gradually inclining toward the insertion direction as the facing surface approaches the through hole.

Claims (9)

1. A connector comprising:

a first connector housing having a tube-shaped hood part; and

a second connector housing having a tube part and a body part which is received in the tube part and receives a terminal fitting therein,

wherein the hood part of the first connector housing, which approaches the second connector housing from above, is inserted in the tube part of the second connector housing and the body part of the second connector housing is positioned in the hood part of the first connector housing, so that the first and second connector housings are fitted to each other,

wherein at an end part of the second connector housing, said end part being situated at the front of an insertion direction of the first connector housing into the second connector housing, the second connector housing includes:

a connecting part which connects the tube part and the body part to each other; and

a through hole which is adjacent to the connecting part and penetrates through the tube part so as to communicate a first space, which is outside the body part and inside the tube part, and the outside of the tube part to each other,

wherein a facing surface of the connecting part facing the first connector housing is provided with an inclined surface gradually inclining toward the insertion direction of the first connector housing as the facing surface approaches the through hole.

2. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein a second space is formed between an end of the hood part and the connecting part when the first and second connector housings are fitted to each other.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 5, 2023
From: YAZAKI CORPORATION
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063845/0802 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 20, 2008
From: ITO, YOSHITAKA; KODAMA, SHINJI
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021918/0826 →