Delphi Technologies, Inc.

Terry L Chapin

Dale Joseph Smutny

Michael Wayne Rea

Suzanne Christine Nadasky

Masahiro Yoshino

Dale W Kirk

Paul W Miller

Justin E Bruno

A one-piece, molded elastomeric grommet for mounting in a hole that extends through a support panel for passing a member through the support panel has an elongate tubular portion defining a passage that extends from an inlet at one end of the tubular portion to an exit at an opposite end of the tubular portion. An umbrella portion surrounds the tubular portion and has a forward end that is integrally attached to the tubular portion so as to form an open ended acoustic chamber outwardly of the tubular portion. A mounting portion at a rearward end of the umbrella portion comprising a forward mounting flange and the umbrella portion includes a collapsible wall having a substantially uniform thickness and an undulate shape in a circumferential direction to facilitate insertion of the forward mounting flange through an undersized hole in a support panel.

Collapsible grommet

A spark plug connector (,) includes a cap (,) that mounts a terminal (,) for relative rotation with respect to a lock body (,) and outer heat shield (,). The lock body has an oval opening (,) aligned about a snap ring (,) of the terminal. When the cap member and terminal are in one rotated position, the snap ring is allowed to expand and be either installed or disconnected from the spark plug post (,). The oval minor axis is dimensioned such that when the cap and terminal are rotated approximately 90&deg;, the snap ring abuts the lock body (,) about the oval opening and is prevented from expanding to lock the terminal (,) to the spark plug post (,).

Cam lock spark plug wire connection

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Cortland, OH, United States of America

Terry L Chapin