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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 1987
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1986
David R McMahan, Anderson, IN (US);
John D Geddie, Anderson, IN (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
An improved electrical connector for use with a headlight assembly of the type in which the headlight is sandwiched between a bezel and a housing with an inner surface of the housing overlying the back surface of the headlight with an access hole in the housing opening to the headlight terminals. The electrical connector compensates for angular tolerance variations in the headlight terminals that can cause a variance in the spatial relation between the connector and the housing. The connector includes a pliant sealing boot surrounding a rigid socket, with ears of the socket contained within pockets of the sealing boot, cooperatively forming composite compression pads of a dual flexibility. The inner surface of the housing directly compresses the less rigid sealing boot pockets before flexing the more rigid socket ears, transferring and distributing the force of the compression evenly to the sealing boot to both conform the sealing boot to the headlight back surface and to positively retain the connector in place. By initially compressing the less rigid sealing boot pockets, any variation in the spacing of the socket ears from the inner surface of the housing caused by an angular variation in the headlight terminals is absorbed and compensated.